Pope Leo XIV

By JACK BROOK and DEEPA BHARATH Associated Press/Report for America NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy. All four of Pope Leo …

By TASSANEE VEJPONGSA and JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press VILLANOVA, Pa. (AP) — When Villanova University’s president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope wasn’t far away on campus, studying math two grades below him. On Thursday, church bells rang out for hours in …

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. FILE – Newly elected …

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church on the second day of their conclave. The crowd in …