Americans in St. Peter’s square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was ...

“I’m ecstatic,” said Alec Maddox, 32, a consultant who lives in San Diego, although he and his two brothers, Tommy, 30, and ...

The Baltimore faithful are marking a new era of the Catholic Church amid the election of the first American to become pope.

Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from the ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

While the 267th pope took care not to appear as a representative of the American Catholic Church, he could become a critic of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, the first time an American has led the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

The ballot failed to reach the two-thirds supermajority, or 89 votes, that is required for a new pope to be elected.