Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s.

Pope Benedict XVI had made Burke a cardinal in 2010 ... ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick before becoming bishop of Dallas in ...

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

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Explore historical trivia behind the longest conclave and the shortest, the oldest pope and the youngest and a handful of ...

Two are retired archbishops: Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston and Wilton Gregory of Washington ... of St. Louis from 2004 to 2008. Pope Benedict XVI had made Burke a cardinal in 2010, after ...

The most common papal name is John, followed by Gregory and Benedict. Although there has been a Pope John XXIII, there have only been 21 legitimate popes named John. That's because John XVI was an ...

in honor of Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great (590-604). The last to use that name was Gregory XVI in 1831. Benedict was chosen 16 times, including by Francis' predecessor ...