Ever since his brother was named pope, John Prevost hasn’t been shy about talking to the press. Pope Leo XIV’s first phone call with his brother went viral, after a reporter captured it on video (“Why ...

Former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States was selected Thursday by the papal conclave to succeed Pope Francis and lead the Roman Catholic Church. The new pontiff, who has taken the ...

As newly elected Pope Leo XIV — a native son of Chicago — made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the ...

"Peace be with all of you!" Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost addressed the ecstatic crowd gathered in St ...

NEW LENOX, Ill. (WGN) — Long before he was Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost and his two brothers were just “kids on a block of kids” growing up in south suburban Dolton, his brother said. But neighbors ...

When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his television in Illinois, called his niece and they watched in awe as his ...

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

Pope Leo XIV’s estranged eldest brother, a MAGA die-hard regarded as the family’s “black sheep,” confessed “to everything short of murder and incest” during penance with the reigning pontiff. Louis ...