Francis embarked on a 12-year project to rein in the traditionalists in the United States, which is terrifically important to the global church financially. Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

Robert Francis Prevost was on Thursday elected the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as the new leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo ... office of bishops was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.