In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to ...

Chicago locals headed to Rome for Pope Leo XIV's installation ceremony 02:20. It still may be hard to believe, but the new ...

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

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

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

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

Robert Prevost, a native of Chicago, is a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s office ...

The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest ...

Pope Leo’s hometown Dolton was hit with economic hardship following the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side.

Catholic Charities of Chicago uses a lobbying firm that supports pro-abortion politicians and represents abortion providers, ...

The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems ...

Omaha native Blase Cupich is back in the States after attending the conclave in Rome last week. He's one of the 251 cardinals in the world. Cupich spent six years working with Robert Prevost, who's ...