The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

A local historian went to Rome for the first time during the conclave. But he wasn’t expecting ‘that’ kind of history.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation, giving the hilltop town of Castel ...

Pope Leo XIV signaled commitment to continuing the fight against clergy sexual abuse by appointing France’s Bishop Thibault ...

Cardinal Luis Pascual Dri, the Argentine priest whom Pope Francis held up as the model confessor, has died in Buenos Aires at ...

Archbishop thomas rodi ((road--ee)) has served as the leader of the archdiocese of mobile for close to two decades.Under church law -- when an a ...

Carlo Acutis was due to receive his sainthood from the late Pope Francis in April, and now Pope Leo has announced the new ...

Pope Leo wore a surprising tech accessory for his first mass as the newly-elected pope, and it's got many people all saying the same thing. It was announced just last week (8 May) that Robert Francis ...

The Brief White smoke signaled the election of Cardinal Robert Prevost to succeed Pope Francis, who died last month at age 88. Prevost, a Chicago native, becomes the first American to be elected ...

CHICAGO − Over 100 years passed between World Series championships for Cubs fans in this great city, but they finally got one. And now, after 2,000 years, they've got a pope, too. Chicagoans don ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said maybe now that he's pope, their old church will be reopened.

Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the popemobile after the Easter mass, at St Peter's square in the Vatican on April 20, 2025. (Photo by Andreas SOLARO / AFP) On September 1, 2021, I was ...