Before shepherding his diocese, Bishop Martin had previously spent a successful dozen years as the Catholic chaplain at North ...

VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary born in Chicago who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Pope Leo XIV has seen and experienced the Church in more contexts than perhaps any other person currently living...’ ...

It is only right, with all the powers of our heart and mind, to praise You Father and Your Only-Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. Dear Father, by Your wondrous condescension of Loving-Kindness ...

Pope Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...