Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to ...

Massachusetts and Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until ...

The election of Leo, the Catholic Church's first American pope, is drawing a mixed response from groups often at odds with ...

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Robert F. Prevost, 69, was a longshot selection with extensive missionary experience in Peru and an approach similar to Pope ...

Catholics in Boston said they were shocked yet proud that an American was chosen to be pope but the Archbishop of Boston said ...

We have a pope! I join with Catholics in the Archdiocese of Boston and throughout the world, along with people of good will, ...

Massachusetts Catholics and political leaders took a moment to recognize new Pope Leo XIV after Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pope, clearly saw something in Prevost early on. He first sent him to Chiclayo ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s ...

Students at a Catholic elementary school in Dorchester not only witnessed the election of a new pope, but also got to learn<a ...