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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost may have made history Thursday by becoming the first pope from the United States.

EDMONTON — The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops says the church needs to be in the public square and he is looking forward to working with the new pope.

Elected Thursday as the Catholic Church's first global leader to hail from the United States, Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics — a realm not entirely unknown to the Chicago-born priest, whose social media hist

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic religious order. Prevost, 69, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV , was formerly the prior general, or leader, of the Order of St.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Americans in St. Peter’s Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal , Robert Provost, was elected pope Thursday and had taken the name Leo XIV.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV .

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV .

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — How long does it take to choose a pope ? In this case, it took only two days for Catholic cardinals to elect a successor to Pope Francis . That's among the shortest conclaves in recent decades, but not the shortest ever.