Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV spoke in Italian and then switched to Spanish, recalling his many years spent as a missionary and then archbishop of Chiclayo, Peru. Supreme Court backs Republican lawmaker in Maine ...

Former Gov. Pat Quinn (front left) and Monica Walker show the Rev. Joseph Chamblain a note written in 2011 by Robert Prevost, now better known as Pope Leo XIV, outside Assumption Church, 323 W ...

In the days following Robert Prevost’s election as Pope Leo XIV, the world sought to understand this relatively unknown man. While his name had emerged late ...

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

Born in Chicago as Robert Prevost in 1955, the new pope for the past decade has held dual citizenship in the U.S. and Peru, where he spent time as a missionary and bishop.

Robert Prevost became the first American to ascend to the head of the Catholic Church, and Louisiana has a connection as Prevost’s maternal grandparents were Creoles who lived in New Orleans.

Edinson Delgado worked closely with Bishop Robert Prevost as administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo’s leading Catholic school. Here’s what he has to say about the new pope.

In his first official appointment, Pope Leo named a woman to head a major Vatican office. Sister Simona Brambilla is now the prefect of the department responsible for all the Catholic Church’s ...

ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch The advocates said they filed a complaint against then-Cardinal Robert Prevost just six weeks before he was elected pope.