The church's owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

2177 The Sunday celebration of the Lord's Day and his Eucharist ... the feast of Mary the Mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, her Assumption, the feast of Saint Joseph, the feast of the ...

Above, a pool of blue light from a stained-glass window illuminates a balcony where the St. Mary of the Assumption Church ... pilgrims for La Virgen’s feast day every December.

When Robert Francis Prevost was growing up in a modest house in Dolton, Illinois, no one, not even his neighbors, imagined he ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton and attended St. Mary’s parish before becoming Pope Leo XIV.

Meet Donna, who lives next door to Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton, IL. She says the home was recently a hub of drug ...

The Assumption on Aug. 15, for instance, celebrates Mary being taken body and soul into ... essential work grinds to a halt on that feast day. Then there are titles related to apparitions.