Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced the news on Thursday, May 8. Pope Francis died on April 21 at his residence in the Vatican’s ...

"Peace be with all of you!" Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago and raised in Dolton, has been selected to lead the Catholic Church as the 267th pope. He ...

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV (R), the American Robert Prevost, appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican after the Papal Conclave. Oliver Weiken/dpa The Catholic Church has a new ...

UPDATE: Pope Leo XIV, the American Robert Prevost, said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” From the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Catholics across the region celebrated the historic announcement Thursday that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area and marveled that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meet Pope Leo XIV: The life and times of Robert Francis Prevost On 8 May 2025, the Catholic Church entered a historic new era with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 8 was a big day for Catholics with the election of the new Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago ...

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Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from the United States and defying a longstanding belief that church leaders would ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, greets the faithful as he appears from the Central Loggia of St. Peter's Square on May 8, 2025 in Vatican City, Vatican. Credit - ...