The pontiff broke the news on "NBC Nightly News" with anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one ...

Irish Loreto Sr. Patricia Murray, the executive secretary of the Rome-based International Union of Superiors General, or UISG ...

"May he help end wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and prevent conflict between India and Pakistan," Ecumenical Patriarch ...

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Before becoming pope, Leo XIV spent nearly a decade in northern Peru, where he earned deep respect by reforming a ...

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

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

It has long been an unwritten rule of the Catholic Church that no citizen of a world superpower can be pope. The informal ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit to the part of Chicago where the first American Pontiff was raised gives ...

The brother Robert Francis Prevost, who was chosen on Thursday as the first American pope, has revealed where his baseball ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, has a special pizza named after him in his hometown of Chicago - and it turns ...