He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, has been elected the first American pope in the ...

By Alek Buttermann The election of US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new head of the Catholic Church has placed Peru under an unexpected international spotlight. Prevost, an ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, a new Pope has been elected, and he’s someone who has some college ties to the United States of America. Known to many as the “Latin Yankee,” Robert Prevost—now ...

For years, there were allegations of abuse within the hugely influential Catholic society Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), which had deep ties ... public. Prevost, who lived in Peru as a ...

Here's what we know so far about Prevost's ties to Chicago and the Land of Lincoln ... Ordained in 1982, Prevost spent much of his clerical life in Peru, serving as Bishop of Chiclayo from ...

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s family members in the Tribune archives.

This momentous occasion crowned an extraordinary career in both service and reform. A Chicago native with deep ties to Peru, Prevost becomes the first American pope, a landmark event not just for the ...

When Prevost was Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, three victims reported to civil authorities in 2022 after there was no movement on their canonical case against a priest filed through the diocese ...

For years before becoming Pope Leo XIV — as a parish priest and then bishop in Peru — Robert Prevost built ties with interfaith environmental networks and Indigenous organizations to place forest prot ...

The College of Cardinals elected American Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope on Thursday in ... including assignments in St. Louis, Chicago, Peru, and most recently, Rome. On Thursday, Archbishop ...