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

It was the most electric thing I have ever experienced inside the walls of a Catholic church,” one protester recalls.

From Polish pilgrimage trails to French vineyards, the places popes come from often gain new meaning. With the announcement ...

Survivors say Pope Leo must commit to transparency in investigations of priests accused of sexual abuse. His record on doing ...

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 ...

Vice President JD Vance is headed back to Vatican City for Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass, a week after the first American pope was selected.

A once-abandoned church on a Far South Side corner has gotten the world's attention with news that Pope Leo XIV spent his formative years there.

The White House announced on Thursday that Vice President JD Vance will travel to Vatican City to attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV this weekend. Vance will lead a U.S. delegation that ...

The pope’s surprise Chicago roots are fueling hopes for economic revival in Dolton and the South Suburbs through tourism and new development.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...