(NewsNation) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American, has been selected as the new pope and taken the name Leo XIV. White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday after Prevost secured ...

SOAVE, Italy (AP) — The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in ...

VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Robert Prevost, seated beneath Michelangelo’s monumental fresco of the Last Judgement, buried his head in his hands as the sound of his name echoed off the walls of the Sistine ...

"I'll have the sweet and sour chicken, spring rolls and the dumplings, please." That was Cardinal Robert Prevost's usual order when he would stop by one of the local Chinese restaurants tucked away on ...

The cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV described his election as willed by the Holy Spirit. Yet a new book suggests that Cardinal Robert Prevost's path to the papacy ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead the Catholic Church. The appointment came in 2023 following Pope Francis’s ...

Never discount a little bit of hometown advantage. Seniors at St. Rita High School on Chicago's Southwest Side were given a pretty straightforward assignment this week: choose a potential pope and ...

The secret conclave that elected Pope Leo head of the Catholic Church last May was interrupted when one of the 133 cardinals involved was found carrying a cellphone, a massive security breach, a book ...

Former Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV (left), and his brothers John Prevost (center) and Louis Prevost. (Courtesy of Deborah Prevost) A day before the conclave to elect a new pope, Louis ...