CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost . Maybe when the shock ...

Residents in the Peruvian town of Chiclayo chant "long live the pope!" Pope Leo spent eight years as a bishop close to the ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — grew up in Chicago, ...

In the Peruvian city of Chiclayo, just a few kilometers from the Pacific Ocean, nearly everyone knows Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo XIV might be "gringo" by birth but ask the people from Chiclayo, Peru, and the man is decidedly Peruvian.

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with ...

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...

Many people who worked with Pope Leo XIV when he was Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru, couldn’t hold back tears when ...

VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV laid out the vision of his papacy Saturday, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue with some of the ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected Thursday by the conclave to serve as pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV at the age of 69. Prevost, a missionary who dedicated his career to ministry in Peru ...

With a culture as rich as Peru’s, you can see it, and you can hear it. So when the world started learning more about the new pope, they thought he was just a cardinal from Chicago.