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White smoke at Vatican, phones blowing up in Chicago: Their old classmate Robert is pope
Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
"Da Pope": Chicago ready with the jokes after native son Cardinal Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV
The internet wasted no time pumping out the jokes and memes after Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new ...
‘Who thought this was going to happen?': Pope Leo XIV's brother visits pontiff in Rome
Shortly after hearing the news on Thursday, Prevost hopped on a plane to Rome, hoping to see his brother. Now the pope is a ...
How a Chicago native became pope: See Robert Francis Prevost's path to making history
Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...
Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first pope from the United States
Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...
How Front Pages Around the World Covered the Selection of Pope Leo XIV
In a digital age, the front pages of print newspapers can still capture a historic moment as they did on Friday with ...
Advocates press for accounting of sex-abuse cases in new pope’s past jurisdictions
Pope Leo XIV has never been accused of abuse, but has been in positions of authority when accusations of sexual abuse have ...
Victims’ group alleges Pope Leo XIV mishandled sexual abuse cases involving priests in Chicago and Peru
Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused ...