He will be known as Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, has been elected the first American pope in ...

Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent two decades of service to the church in Peru will now be known as Pope Leo XIV. We go to the Vatican to hear what it was like in St. Peter's ...

Beyond Peru, Prevost is considered a moderately progressive ... Catholic communities in Peru have expressed pride in his deep ties to the country. In his first message after his election, Prevost ...

This momentous occasion crowned an extraordinary career in both service and reform. A Chicago native with deep ties to Peru, Prevost becomes the first American pope, a landmark event not just for the ...

Here’s a look at what we discovered about some of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV’s family members in the Tribune archives.

For years, there were allegations of abuse within the hugely influential Catholic society Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV), which had deep ties ... public. Prevost, who lived in Peru as a ...

As the first -ever Pope to hail from the U.S., Robert Prevost's American sports ties quickly became a point ... He remained in Peru until he was moved to the Vatican in 2023.

When Prevost was Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, three victims reported to civil authorities in 2022 after there was no movement on their canonical case against a priest filed through the diocese ...

Here's what we know so far about Prevost's ties to Chicago and the Land of Lincoln ... Ordained in 1982, Prevost spent much of his clerical life in Peru, serving as Bishop of Chiclayo from ...

The College of Cardinals elected American Cardinal Robert Prevost as pope on Thursday in ... including assignments in St. Louis, Chicago, Peru, and most recently, Rome. On Thursday, Archbishop ...

Robert Prevost, who was born in Chicago and spent two decades of service to the church in... New Pope Has Ties To U.S. and Peru The world's 1.4 billion Catholics now have a new pope. Robert ...