Lisa Solava/Provided Share ROME — Three hours after Pope Leo ... The Solavas and Utter first met the Rev. Robert Francis Prevost, aka “Father Bob,” when he was the prior general of his ...

ROME — Three hours after Pope Leo XIV was ... The Solavas and Utter first met the Rev. Robert Francis Prevost, aka “Father Bob,” when he was the prior general of his religious order, the ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

In his first appearance as Pope Leo XIV on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, the man born Robert Francis ... within it. Prevost’s leadership roles in Chicago and Rome were essential in ...

On 8 May 2025, the Catholic Church entered a historic new era with the election of Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ... Canon Law from the Angelicum in Rome. His extraordinary linguistic ...

Robert Francis Prevost, taking the name Pope Leo XIV ... while on their tour of Rome. (Pastor Daniel Cochran) Suburban church group witnesses Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV greeting the public in ...

He was ordained a priest in Rome and studied there until 1984 ... professor of religion at Northwestern University. “Robert Francis Prevost was a favorite of Pope Francis, who made him cardinal ...

Pope Leo’s hometown in the south suburbs was hit with economic hardship after the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side. But residents hope their new fame can spark opportunity.

Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more ...