JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The United States is celebrating following the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost as the first pope born in America. WLBT‘s Patrice Clark visited the Catholic Diocese of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost will be the first American Pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. The missionary spent much of his career ministering in Peru.

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name Leo XIV. 'A sliding doors moment': Donald Trump appears backed into a ...

Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? Pope Leo the XIV will be the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo the Fourteenth (Vatican) ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history ...

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 ...

He is the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church, elected by his fellow cardinals on the second day of their conclave. Prevost appeared on the loggia of St. Peter’s Square wearing the ...

Francis brought Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 to serve as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations from around the world, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — 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 ...

Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church By The Associated Press May 8, 2025 May 8, 2025 ...