Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected pope, the first time an American has led the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, chose the name Pope Leo XIV.

It didn’t take long for area residents to start reacting to the choice of a new pope to lead the Catholic Church after white smoke began billowing from the Sistine ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful ...