Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological spectrum in Pope Leo XIV’s homeland, raising the question of whether he ...

The new Pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, who began digging in the archives and discovered ...

Catholics in Maryland and across the nation attended their first Sunday mass since Pope Leo XIV was elected into the papacy.