It still may be hard to believe, but the new pope is from Chicago. In just a few days, those who consider Pope Leo XIV their ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

Prevost, a member of the Augustinian religious order, lived for years in Peru first as a missionary and then as an archbishop ...

The new pontiff and Bernard Hebda, the archbishop of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have exchanged letters but ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

Among the thousands of faithful celebrating in the square the election of the new pope were many from the United States, some ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich got off the plane from Rome in Chicago Monday night, but there is not time to rest just yet.

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.