Habemus papam!” Those words echoed to the faithful around the world, including those waiting outside St. Peter’s Basilica as ...

Louisiana Creole expert Jari Honora shared his genealogical research on 69-year-old Chicago native Robert Prevost shortly ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Germany’s far-right party hates immigration, and some of its leaders have a disturbing tendency to say things that sound Nazi ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader, with the Augustinian cardinal Robert Prevost elected as Pope Leo XIV, his chosen name ...

One of the highlights of my genealogical journey has been the great privilege I have had to spend two decades corresponding with grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the owner of my ...

Leo, 69, grew up on Chicago’s South Side and had a childhood like many Americans before he moved up the church ranks. He was ...

Robert Prevost, a Chicago native and longtime missionary in Peru, has been elected as the first pope from the United States, choosing the name Leo XIV. Among the electors was Haitian Cardinal Chibly ...

He spoke to the crowd in Italian ... that he is of Tuscanian ancestry, according to Catholic.org. St. Leo the Great became a very well-known deacon of the Church by 431, and was widely respected ...

We want to be a synodal church. A church that walks, a church that always seeks peace, that always seeks charity, that always ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement ...

Leo has not spoken publicly about his ancestry, but the National Catholic Reporter writes that it may lead to him being known as the “first Black pope in the history of the Catholic Church.” ...