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Once Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the news anchors and reporters and podcasters — and anyone else with an excuse or a budget to go to ...

Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV Monday, a day after the pope's Inauguration Mass of his pontificate. Skip to content NOWCAST WLWT News 5 Today ...

(Kathryn Jean Lopez is senior fellow at the National Review Institute, editor-at-large of National Review magazine and author of the new book “A Year With the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily ...

A new Roman Catholic pope has been chosen. Read more about Robert Francis Prevost, who has taken the name Leo XIV. Guesses about who the next Roman Catholic pope will be often prove inaccurate.

While Pope Francis led the call for respecting human dignity in the face of AI, it's worth looking a little deeper into the historical inspiration for Leo XIV's name choice.

Pope Leo hails journalists, decries polarizing language. In his first encounter with journalists as pope, Leo called on the news media to highlight the “voices of the weak who have no voice.” ...

The Issue: The election of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the next pope of the Catholic Church. We now have an American pope in Robert Francis Prevost (“Chicago pope,” May 9 ...

Yes, I cried when I heard that Pope Leo XIV is from Chicago. And I thought of St. Peter's Church in Chicago's Loop, where I used to go to Mass now and then. It was usually a 5:30 Mass. Many ...

Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were black or mixed and of Creole descent, moving from New Orleans to Chicago at the turn of the 20th century, reports said Friday.

Behind the name Pope Leo and its ties to social justice 01:59. Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV.. There are no written rules or ...

He was ordained a priest on June 19, 1982, by Archbishop Jean Jadot in Rome. He served extensively in Peru from 1985 to 1998, working as a parish pastor, seminary teacher, and diocesan official.