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 ...

Many hope the Catholic church’s new leader will reverse the closed parishes and dwindling flock in cities such as Chicago.

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

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 ...

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