But Leo's historic election last week to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics as the first US-born pope means that the two ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

In an interview with JI, the DOJ lawyer said the administration is ‘not being aggressive enough’ in its antisemitism policy, ...

The motto of one newly elected American world leader: " Fight! " The other introduced himself to the world with his first ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been ...

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

A popular Chicago restaurant chain is celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV with a sandwich named in the pontiff’s honor.

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

The pontiff broke the news to 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one chat ...