Robert Prevost, as bishop of Chiclayo, initiated a process with the Vatican for the recognition of a 17th-century Eucharistic ...

After Pope Leo XIV’s election on May 8, a new survey shows the percentage of Catholics continues to decrease in Peru.

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office of bishops.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, signaling that a new pope—the 267th leader of the Catholic Church—had been ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take the helm of the Roman Catholic Church. The man who emerged was a surprise ...

Catholics, some members of the LGBTQ+ community and others who are marginalized − also revere the Virgen de la Puerta.

This idea of the Catholic Church not as a voluntary association ... That Leo, despite spending most of his mature ecclesial career abroad in Peru and Rome, has managed to navigate the shifting ...

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, won the secretive conc ...

Pope Leo XIV’s record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

Five days after the police-involved, Memorial Day murder of George Floyd in 2020, Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, ...

"The pope is Peruvian; God loves Peru," she said. Follow our live updates Pope Leo XIV marks new beginning for Catholic Church Continuity the key for Pope seen as unifier in the Church Who is the ...