Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world will gather in Vatican City on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV presides ...

The graphic installation at Rate Field marks the location where the future pope cheered for Chicago in Game 1 of the 2005 ...

An old-time scandal: the family origins of Pope Leo XIV emerge from American archives, and a curious discovery brings to ...

The bobbleheads have been popular in Chicago where the pontiff was born and raised and in Philadelphia where he went to ...

Before he became Pope Leo XIV, he was just Robert from South Side Chicago. This is where the future Pope liked to order ...

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

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

As such, the ascension of Pope Leo XIV prompted one of those genuinely great, increasingly rare, days on social media — the ...

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 ...

Roman Catholics around the globe are looking forward to a historic moment on Sunday: the installation of the first American ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the new pope, taking the name Leo XIV. The internet was delighted that an American from Chicago is leading the Catholic Church, sparking many memes.