Francis embarked on a 12-year project to rein in the traditionalists in the United States, which is terrifically important to the global church financially. Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.

Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was elected as the pope of the Catholic Church on Thursday, taking the name Leo XIV. Beginning on Wednesday, 133 cardinals gathered to select ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary born in Chicago who spent much of his career abroad and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in ...