VATICAN CITY — Pope ... history's first American pope. Freed from their conclave, cardinals began describing the days and hours leading up to the final ballot Thursday afternoon that brought Leo ...

was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as ...

following the election of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and the first American Pope in history on Thursday. This home in Dolton, Ill., is where Pope Leo XIV grew up. The Cape Cod-style home in ...

choosing the name Pope Leo XIV and becoming the first American pope in the Catholic Church's 2,000-year history. The bells of the cathedral in Peru’s capital of Lima, at Holy Name Cathedral in ...