ABC News’ Matt Rivers travels to Chiclayo, Peru, the city where now Pope Leo XIV is celebrated for his time as a missionary, ...

Pope Leo XIV made time in his busy schedule to welcome his friend Father Hugo Sánchez and Sánchez’s mother to the Vatican.

Attendees at the Mass shouted "¡Viva el Papa León!" ("Long live Pope Leo!") and "¡El papa es chiclayano!" ("The pope is a ...

People in the city of Chiclayo, where Leo XIV served as bishop for about eight years, gathered to celebrate a man they see as one of their own.

A flag from the United States waves from the crowd as Pope Leo XIV appears at the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for ...

Pope Leo XIV leads his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formerly Cardinal ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

People react at the Cathedral of St. Mary in Chiclayo, Peru, May 8, 2025, the day Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected ...

Bishop Robert Prevost recalled his early meetings with Pope Francis when the latter was archbishop of Buenos Aires when they ...

New pope's deliberate decision to identify with Peru in particular and the Global South generally is no accident ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

The new pope may be born in the United States, but he has deeps root in Peru, where he lived for 20 years, as a missionary, and then as bishop of the city of Chiclayo. Cardinal Robert Prevost even ...