U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, ...

Pope Leo XIV's first message to the world shortly after becoming the new pontiff focused on bringing more peace and connections to the world. The new pope stood and admired the huge, cheering crowd ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

President Donald Trump was quick to congratulate Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on his historic election as Pope Leo XIV, ...

First American pope, Leone XIV, has been warmly welcomed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump.

“Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope. It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope,” Trump said Thursday on Truth Social. The president ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis’s. The two share many of the same views on ...

Leo XIV succeeds Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 on Easter Monday. Francis made history in his own right as the first ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the new pope, taking the name Leo XIV. An American from Chicago, Prevost has ...

This is not a drill — we finally have a new Pope! On Thursday, May 8, 2025, the second day of the 2025 papal conclave, ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope on May 8, becoming the first American to ever be named pontiff. He ...