The Rev. Nelson Daniel Rupp was assigned to St. Augustine seminary for part of the time Robert Prevost was a student.

PHOENIX - May 8 was a groundbreaking day of sorts for the Roman Catholic faith, as cardinals in the church voted, for the first time, to install an American as their leader. The election of Robert ...

The new American pope, Leo XIV, has somehow managed, in the four months since his election, to stay mostly out of the news.

President Donald Trump hosts Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House to discuss an end to the war with Hamas. Princess Harrell TOPICS: WASHINGTON — White smoke billowed from the ...

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 United States in the ...

A lawyer seemed to have a conflict of interest when he represented sisters who claimed the future pope covered up their abuse ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — After two days of conclave and only four votes, the cardinals selected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the Catholic church's next pope. He took the name Pope Leo XIV. After weeks of ...

Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico met the new Pope Leo XIV (formerly Bishop Robert Prevost) in 2015. The Most Rev. Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and former bishop of the Erie ...

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy ...

On May 8, 2025, the Roman Catholic Church selected its new pope: Leo XIV. Before his historic election via conclave on Thursday, Leo was better known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old ...