Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

With a huge and festive crowd gathered in St. Peter's Square, Pope Leo XIV led his first Sunday recitation of the "Regina ...

A part-time church employee who coordinated altar servers at a Queens parish was arrested earlier this month after an abuse ...

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.

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 ...

Transitional Deacon Alex Hall said he first felt the call to be a priest when he was in elementary school. Bishop Michael Izen was then Father Izen, the pastor of Deacon Hall’s parish, St. Timothy in ...

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 ...