Robert Prevost, the latest — and first American — pope was raised in the Chicago area, where his childhood home was recently ...

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 is fast becoming an icon in Chicago, bringing hope that he will shine light on working class heroes everywhere.

Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9, the day after stunning the world as the first pope from the United States in the Church's history.

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 Southern Italy, about his old friend being ...

Affiliate station WGN in Chicago spoke with the new pope’s brother, John Prevost, to discuss the issue of what baseball team the family supported.

The new pope, Leo XIV, has this in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy: He’s been in positions of ...

For the second conclave in a row, the College of Cardinals shocked the watching world with its choice for the next pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was a long-shot favorite, precisely because he ...

Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

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

Pope Leo XIV is facing criticism from survivors over his record on clergy sexual abuse while he served in Chicago and Peru.