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

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

The same auction house that sold President Trump’s childhood home for millions in 2017 will take bids for the modest ...

I knew it was bound to happen at some point, but this soon – if you’re thinking in context, 10 years is not that far off. So, ...

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

Here comes ‘Da Pope.’ Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo, was born to Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Martínez in September 1955. He was raised in Chicago alongside brothers Louis Martin Prevost and John ...

Catholics and non-Catholics alike were abuzz with excitement in Chicago May 8, after one of the city’s native sons became ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first North American elected pope, continuing Pope Francis' legacy of ...

The new pontiff’s home city has welcomed him with jokey tropes, from its deep dish pizzas to stained-glass windows depicting ...

We do not need loud, forceful communication,” said Pope Leo XIV, the Chicago-born American prelate Robert Prevost – at his ...

Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost carved out a career in the Church soon after leaving school. He studied mathematics at Villanova before going on to join the Order of St Augustine and being ordained ...