An estimated 10,000 Korean Catholics were killed for their faith in bouts of persecution that lasted about 100 years ...

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Pope Leo XIV, 69, is the person to whom lots of people look when they want to come in contact with God. John Prevost, 71, is ...

A historian believes he’s found the location of Jesus Christ’s first miracle – and has newfound evidence to back it up.

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.

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.

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.

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 ...

Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the ...

A battle for the soul of the Catholic Church: What's at stake in conclave this week The most globally representative group of cardinals in history will be weighing such factors as geography ...