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 ...

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A Chicago native, only a cardinal for a short time, a Villanova graduate and an Augustinian friar, Prevost was set to be in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. But in Peru, he is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud ...

Prevost was born on Sept. 14, 1955, in Chicago, and his Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton with his parents and two brothers.

Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States. “He worked so hard to find help, that there was not only enough for one plant, but for two oxygen ...

Robert Prevost's Catholic roots were planted in Chicago's south side suburbs, where he grew up playing "pretend priest" and embodies the spirit of a "second Pope Francis," his brother said.