We’re learning a lot more about the new pope from those who know him well: family, friends and fellow missionaries.

Paula Hambrick never imagined that in her lifetime the Catholic Church would be led by a pope from the United States, never ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

We have an American-Peruvian Pope,” said Betty Lazaro. Locals say they expect Pope Leo to carry on Pope Francis’ call to ...

Pope Leo XIV is registered to vote in the United States and has previously voted in some Republican primaries, but he is not ...

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Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the new pope, Leo XIV, and the internet made many memes celebrating ...

The powerful Big Apple cardinal served as “kingmaker” for fellow US Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, rallying support in ...

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

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

Pope Leo XIV has pledged to help the Catholic Church be an ‘ark of salvation’ as he celebrated his first mass as pontiff and ...

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