The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first American pope and is seen as a diplomat in the church. "This is the first greeting of the risen Christ. May the peace be with you," Leo said in Italian ...

In a stunning decision, the Catholic College of Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born ... the late Pope Francis. An American flag also hung from the church's bell tower, a sight ...

The first American elected pontiff ... is beloved and known to us is now the beloved leader of the whole entire church,” said Barbara Reid, a Dominican sister and president of the Catholic ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Elected Thursday as the Catholic Church’s first global leader to ... While many Catholics in the US welcomed the first American pope, some of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement reacted ...

Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old born in Chicago who spent decades serving in Peru, would become Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy in the church’s 2,000-year history.

While the new leader of the Catholic Church has an impressive ... one key facet of Leo stood out to many: his American Roots. The Chicago born Pope is the first ever to hail from the US.