The Islamic world will never accept a non-Muslim nation in land previously conquered in the name of Allah. We cheerfully believe that if we compromise enough, and are reasonable enough ...

Thanks to his choice of pontifical name and his mathematical and legal training, Pope Leo XIV has awakened hope and curiosity among the faithful and the more secular world about the influence the ...

Source: BBC In a moment of unprecedented significance for the Roman Catholic Church, Chicago's Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen Supreme Pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.

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Born in Chicago, he is the first pontiff from North America who also served as bishop of Chiclayo and has Peruvian citizenship. For two terms he was prior general of the Augustinians, a religious ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Leo is now tied for the fourth most common name chosen by popes, along with Clement. Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a century.

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIII, who was head of the Catholic Church from 1878 to 1903, laid the foundation for modern Catholic ...