Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded ...

Peruvians are elated after a Catholic cardinal who spent years guiding the faithful in the South American country was elected pope and hoped he will visit them soon in his new role.

Edinson Delgado worked closely with Bishop Robert Prevost as administrator of the Diocese of Chiclayo’s leading Catholic ...

Hector Camacho remembers Robert Prevost, set to be formally inaugurated as Pope Leo XIV on Sunday, as a young jeans-wearing missionary from Chicago with broken Spanish, landing in Peru at a time when ...

CHICLAYO, Peru (OSV News) — Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown — but his ...

Now that Prevost has been elected pope, Paredes said he is filled with optimism for the future of the Church. He hopes that ...

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Pope Leo XIV was Bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, from 2015 to 2023. Vera Pajares, of Vero Beach, attended masses officiated by then Bishop Robert Prevost. Pajares remembers him as a kind person whose ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...