Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis’s. The two share many of the same views on ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV . He is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. As a missionary, Prevost, 69, spent his career ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...