The United States was often deemed too powerful — militarily, diplomatically, and even culturally — for one of its own to ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

A new pope has been elected, and for the first time, he's from the United States. Now, the metro's Catholic community is ...