A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

How Leo confronts the lingering global crisis could be of particular interest to Catholics in the Philadelphia region.

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

Some of the cardinals who elected him said his life of service to the poor in Peru and to the church at the Vatican mattered ...

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 gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, became the first pope from the United States. Now, Chicago businesses are getting in on the ...

Bishop Steven J. Raica, head of the Catholic Diocese of Birmingham, reacted to the election of the first U.S.-born pope, ...

Rev. John Leo Oduor, a Roman Catholic priest in Central New York, knew the man who would become Pope Leo XIV while studying ...

The debate over Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team has swept Chicago into a fierce debate over the Cubs and Sox ...

When Pope Leo XIV addressed the crowds in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday evening, the first American pope made it clear that ...

The newly elected Pope Leo XIV could continue in his predecessor's footprints as the steward of the environment of the Catholic Church.