In a country where over 90% of the population identifies as Christian—and nearly three-quarters as Catholic—the election of a new pope is more than a Vatican affair. It's personal.

Peruvians have expressed pride and surprise in one of their own becoming pontiff. Augustinians in the country have expressed ...

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

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Father Cedric Wilson was a senior in seminary high school in Michigan when Pope Leo XIV was a freshman there. Their ...

Father Robert Prevost first arrived in Peru in 1985 during a time of crisis, the aftermath of devastating El Niño rains that ...

Pope Leo XIV has echoed his predecessor’s urgent call for an end to the assault that has killed more than 52,000 Palestinians ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

Thousands of Catholics packed the plaza outside the Cathedral of Santa Maria de Chiclayo in this northern Peruvian city to ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Amid the joyous reception for Robert Prevost, who stunned the world when the U.S ... the most serious of which concern three women in the Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, who claim that ...

Bishop Robert Prevost recalled his early meetings with Pope Francis when the latter was archbishop of Buenos Aires when they ...