(WJAR) — A special Mass will be held in Providence in honor of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV on Monday. It will be held at noon at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.

The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he's Padre Prevost. Maybe when the shock wears off, they'll get ...

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

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

So what can we expect from Prevost? His Augustinian roots suggest discipline and seriousness. And his Chicago roots, say we, ...

Mildred Prevost, a mother of three who sought a graduate degree, held her religious devotion at the center of her life.

Could it be that while the world was earnestly waiting for the papal conclave to commence and a new Pope elected, there was ...

“The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church elected Robert Francis Prevost as their 267th pontiff on Thursday, ending a ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

On Friday, the Diocese of Birmingham’s Bishop Steven Raica celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving for the election of the new Pope ...

Monsignor Anthony Mancini from the Diocese of Providence said he was shocked to learn that Pope Leo XIV is from the United States, calling it a great honor for the country and the Catholic Church.

Learn more about Pope Leo XIV after he was selected to become the first American-born pontiff. Robert Francis Prevost grew up ...