No rest for the new pope! Pope Leo XIV will celebrate his first Mass as pope Friday, May 9, for the College of Cardinals at 11 a.m. local time (5 a.m. ET). The Mass will be broadcast live by the EWTN ...

Pope Leo was diagnosed with cancer after undergoing surgery to remove the lower lobe of his right lung. He's a little over a year into his papacy.

While head of the Dicastery for Bishops from 2023-2025, Cardinal Robert Prevost attended Omega gym next to the Vatican. Valerio Masella was his unsuspecting trainer. “I recognized him immediately. I ...

Any pope makes history just by emerging after the white smoke rises from the Sistine Chapel as the spiritual leader of millions of Christians around the world. But never before has an American donned ...

PORT CHARLOTTE, Florida — Louis Prevost is still reckoning with what just happened in his family. His little brother, Robert Francis Prevost, is now Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope in the ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to fellow host, Scott Detrow, and NPR editor, Daniel Burke about their new book, "American Pope: Leo XIV's Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City." ...

John Prevost, brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, speaks with ABC News in New Lenox, Illinois, May 8, 2025. Image via ABC News. (CHICAGO) — When Robert Prevost was in the first ...

Catholics across the region celebrated the historic announcement Thursday that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area and marveled that ...

NEW LENOX, Illinois — It was one of the most surreal phone calls I’ve experienced. A few hours earlier, John Prevost had watched the TV in stunned disbelief as his younger brother emerged on the ...

Childhood teasing came true May 8 when the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost became the first American pope in history. Not only is Pope Leo XIV the first pope from the United States, he also has ties ...