Pope Leo XIV, has a patchwork background that speaks to the melting pot that is the United States — and his birthplace, the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost made history on May 8, 2025, when he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV is the first true missionary to lead the Catholic Church since Christ chose St. Peter.

The new leader of the Catholic Church is American Robert Francis Prevost, Cardinal Dominique Mamberti announced to a crowd in ...

He later spent two decades carrying out missionary work in Peru before Pope Francis called him back ... Leo insisted that his identity remained rooted in service. “My vocation, like that of ...

Cheers, Chants and a ‘Dance of the Little Devils’ for Pope Leo in Peru People in the city of ... of the city’s past as its political identity changes. Britain’s Magic Circle: Last year ...

The original Pope Leo, known as “Leo the Great,” who served in the fifth century, left an equally powerful legacy. He is ...

Pope Leo XIV will be known for many things, including being the first American pope and the first Augustinian pope, but he ...

ROME – The surprising election of the first American pope felt fraught and ... the most fundamental part of Leo’s identity may not be either his American or his Peruvian nationality, argued ...