As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that he knows as “Bob” had been elected the first American pope. “Oh, dear God,” ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from ...

The debate over Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team has swept Chicago into a fierce debate over the Cubs and Sox ...

Pope Leo XIV, also known as Robert Francis Prevost, has had a busy week. He got confirmed as the newest pope of the Catholic Church, for instance. But we’ve also learned that the Chicago native is a ...

As many Catholics around the world welcome a new pontiff, many are curious about the American's political views.

Cardinal says Leo will be ‘darn good Pope’ as White House downplays Trump tensions - The 69-year-old former cardinal was ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship accused Columbia University on Thursday of eroding democracy with its handling of campus protests ...

The newly elected pope said in a 2024 interview that he played tennis in his free time but did not mention the trombone.

The election of an American as pope is being recognized as a historic choice, but Chicago-born Robert Prevost represents ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.

One of the debates swirling around Pope Leo XIV’s papacy doesn’t deal with religion at all. Instead, it deals with sports, ...