Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in history. Prevost, a missionary who ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost – a Chicago native who spent his career ministering to the poor in Peru – has been elected the 267 th pope, marking the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s ...

Jason Horowitz Motoko Rich and Elizabeth Dias Reporting from Vatican City Robert Francis Prevost was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on Thursday, becoming the first pope from ...

Francis had tangled with conservatives in the American Catholic Church and rarely appointed Americans to top Vatican positions. But he saw Prevost — worldly, self-effacing, a missionary — as ...