To Joe Merigold, a fellow student, Pope Leo was the “smartest person in the class” who would stretch over his desk and “poke ...

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which ...

Pope Leo XIV's mother, Mildred Martínez, has Spanish roots, per Vatican News. She was born in Chicago in 1912, according to ...

I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Philadelphia Filipinos had been rooting for Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to be the next pope and are disappointed.

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV's significance as leader of the Catholic Church is beyond dispute, but the papacy's role has ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

Police in a small Pennsylvania town have arrested a man who allegedly detonated an explosive on the altar of a small Catholic ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary ...