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

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

The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...

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

The very nature of the internet means we were probably always going to see the announcement of Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th pope — a.k.a. Pope Leo XIV ... Pope Leo's Chicago ties ...

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

Prevost led the worldwide order known as the Augustinians -- a sect of Catholicism focused on missionary work and service.

14, 1955, in Chicago, where he was raised alongside ... also said that he and his brothers did not discuss their Creole roots ...

In a wide-ranging interview on Thursday afternoon at his home in New Lenox, a tidy city of 27,000 people about 40 miles ...

Already, with the New York Knicks and their Villanova-built team riding high up 2-0 over the Boston Celtics in the second ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the newest pope, becoming Pope Leo XIV on May 8. Who knew the first United States-born ...

After the world's 1.4 billion Catholics waited with baited breath, the Church's first American pope was unveiled - but all ...