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

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

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

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

14, 1955, in Chicago, where he was raised alongside brothers Louis and John ... The retired educator also said that he and ...

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 ...

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

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

In the week since Pope Leo XIV became the first American pope in history, Catholic churches around the world have decorated ...

Santo Domingo.-Civil registry records from Chicago reveal that the newly elected Pope Leo XIV has Dominican heritage through his grandfather, Joseph N. Martinez. The documents show that the Pope’s ...

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

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