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

President Donald Trump said the selection of Cardinal Robert F. Prevost to be pope is "a great honor" for the U.S., noting he will be the first American-born pontiff.

U.S. bishops on Thursday hailed the election of former Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first pope born in the United States of America. Cardinals elected the newly-titled Leo to the supreme pontificate on Thursday ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church has a distinction that goes beyond being the first pope from the United States. Records obtained by the New York Times found that Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost,

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots. There are still

Tens of thousands of people are streaming into St. Peter's Square for the formal installation service of history's first American pope.

Vice President JD Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, was part of a delegation meeting with the Pope. In addition to the White House invite, he brought gifts, including two books by St.

Pope Leo XIV's genealogy can be traced back to Haiti, where his grandfather, Joseph Norval Martinez. His census records tell a complex story about the history of race in the U.S.