Amid the mostly joyous reception for Robert Prevost, who stunned the world when he emerged from the loggia of St. Peter’s as ...

Xavier Junior Faviana Azalde Castro was confirmed by Pope Leo XIV when he was the arch bishop of Chicaylo, Peru.

The U.S.-born pope spent about a dozen years as a missionary in Peru and returned there later to serve as a bishop.

"The issue of work is of vital importance to the vast majority of people on the planet" and Pope Leo has made it clear that ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

Eastern and Latin alike — who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands,” Leo said May 14.

Peruvians have expressed pride and surprise in one of their own becoming pontiff. Augustinians in the country have expressed ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

The bishop sat quietly near the front row, hands folded, listening as Indigenous leaders and church workers spoke about the threats to Peru's northern forests, a part of the Amazon rain forest. It was ...

On May 6, 2025, schoolchildren at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago held a mock ...

Pope Leo XIV, when he was bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, offered a special prayer of consecration to the Blessed Virgin Mary ...

Father Cedric Wilson was a senior in seminary high school in Michigan when Pope Leo XIV was a freshman there. Their ...