Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) is the second Roman Pontiff, after Pope Francis, from the Americas. Unlike Jorge ...

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

The newly elected pope said in a 2024 interview that he played tennis in his free time but did not mention the trombone.

Here are some fun facts about Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was elected the first pope from the U.S.

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Prevost was brought to the Vatican in 2023 by Pope Francis as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations.

A new pope has been named, and for Villanova University and Philadelphia, the pope might be a familiar face and name. Newly elected Pope Leone XIV appears at the balcony of St.

The Mozambican president, Daniel Chapo, said yesterday that it was "with joy and jubilation" that Mozambique received the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago, is also the first pope to be an Augustinian. Here's what it means to be an Augustian.

Robert Francis Prevost, named as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday -- and the first American to ever be named pope -- graduated from Villanova University in 1977 ...

The Conclave on Thursday chose US Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to succeed Pope Francis as the next head of the Catholic ...