Pope Leo XIV is under renewed scrutiny over claims that he mishandled priest abuse cases while serving as a leader in the ...

In the first week of Leo pontificate, the leading expert on the abuse crisis — as well as several survivors and victims ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

his leadership in the Dicastery for Bishops and Augustinian background suggest he upholds traditional Catholic moral teachings. Prevost is seen as progressive on social issues, embracing ...

VATICAN CITY (News-Press NOW) — Robert Francis Prevost is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, from Chicago, Illinois, will take the name 'Leo XIV'.

Older brother John Prevost revealed the shocking details from a prophetic phone call he had with Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost before he was locked in the Sistine Chapel with the other 132 ...

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.

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Prevost, 69, had to overcome the taboo against an American pope, given the geopolitical power already wielded by the U.S. in the secular sphere. The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and ...

Does this come from a shared background in science (even though Prevost's interest was more mathematical) or perhaps a shared exposure to "the peripheries" where communities are most subject to en ...