Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

In the annals of history, few events resonate as profoundly as the elevation of a new Pope, especially when that Pope holds ...

W.Va., introduces a House resolution to celebrate the election of the first-ever pope born in the United States.

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Italians — and Romans in particular — have had mixed responses to the so-called “American pope.” Most are cautiously ...

"We are simply overjoyed," said Sister Barbara Reid, president of Catholic Theological Union in Hyde Park, where Pope Leo ...