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 ...

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

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

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

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

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 ...

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

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

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-named head of the Catholic Church, hails from Creole ancestry, according to a genealogist.

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

While Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, records show that his family lineage has deep roots in Louisiana.