After graduating from St. Mary’s, Pope Leo XIV then attended St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan. The ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

Following a short, two-day conclave, the first-ever American born pope was elected by a two-thirds majority of 133 Cardinals ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected on Thursday, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine (OSA), also known as the Augustinians, ...

Though Leo XIV is from Chicago, his election to the papacy reflects the move of Christianity toward the Global South.

Pope Leo XIV is the first Augustinian friar elected to the papacy. In 1984 Prevost earned a licentiate and later a doctorate degree in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas ...

1st Augustinian friar to be elected pontiff In addition ... He went on to study canon law at the Pontifical Saint Thomas Aquinas University and received priestly ordination on June 19, 1982 ...

the same year he was ordained a priest. He also earned licentiate (1984) and doctorate (1987) degrees in canon law from the Pontifical College of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. Leo told the ...