President Trump has eliminated funding for programs aimed at ending the growing HIV epidemic among minority communities, ...

The first American pope has a family history with deep ties to New Orleans. Robert Prevost, who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV, was elected as the next pontiff on Thursday following a two-day ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

The Catholic Church has a new supreme pontiff—and he’s from the South Side of Chicago. These are words that no reporter alive ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV marked a watershed moment in the long history of the Catholic Church. Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, Leo XIV became the first American to ascend to the ...

Massachusetts and Boston Catholics are joining the faithful around the world in celebrating the election of the first American-born pope."Everyone was, you know, prognosticating. But we got a surprise ...

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Pope Leo XIV is the first American leader of the Catholic Church. Here's what you need to know about the new pontiff.

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In a groundbreaking moment for the Catholic Church, Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old American missionary and bishop, has been ...

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Kim/Chicago Tribune) John Prevost described his brother as someone with a natural calmness and deep patience ... pastoral man.” “All the experts said an American will never be elected ...