Cardinal Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, is the first U.S.-born pope in the Church's history. Here's how readers reacted to his election.

"What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country," he continued ... 267th pontiff of the Holy Roman Catholic Church” and “the first American pontiff." The 19th-century political ...

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe of Catholics, riven by political divisions that have thwarted the will of ...