A map shows the areas of the U.S. where Catholicism is on the rise, with certain regions experiencing a much higher influx ...

W.Va., has introduced a House resolution to celebrate the election of the first-ever pope born in the United States.

Pope Leo XIV received the Brothers of the Christian Schools, founded by St. John Baptist de La Salle, on May 15 at the ...

ABC7's Liz went out to find Chicagoans visiting St. Peter's Square and some of Pope Leo's favorite local shops.

World Press Freedom Day (May 3) came and went. Weren’t we all so preoccupied with one thing or another so significant that ...

Even as Pope Leo XIV's profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will ...

Eire suggested that one of the reasons Pope Leo was chosen is that he is not a “full-blown American.” Despite being born in ...

We cannot believe that a priest who offered Mass on our altar for us has become the Pope. Our parish has become historical and sacred …’ ...

Vance will travel this weekend to Vatican City where he will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV, history’s first ...

Msgr. Paul V. Garrity The ink was barely dry on the official document that made Cardinal Robert Prevost the 266th successor to St. Peter when right wing pundits began branding him as woke. Before he ...

Pope Leo’s hometown Dolton was hit with economic hardship following the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo, was born to Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Martínez in September 1955. He was raised in Chicago alongside brothers Louis Martin Prevost and John ...