(CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 ...

Pope Leo XIV has created history as the first-ever American-born leader of the Catholic Church. For the first time since his ...

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In early 2025, Francis again showed his esteem by appointing Prevost to the most senior rank of cardinals. The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital of Lima tolled after Prevost’s election ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” From the loggia of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American pope after four ballots in the 2025 papal conclave.

Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of the Catholic Church, will take the name Leo XIV Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s ...

Robert Prevost, a Chicago-born missionary and former Vatican official, has been elected the first American pope, taking the name Leo XIV and signaling a new era for the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the ...