A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy, has voted in three Republican primary elections since 2012, state ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

Robert Prevost was elected as Pope Francis’ successor on Thursday, May 8, concluding a two-day papal conclave. Hailing from ...

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known ...

Following the papal conclave’s historic selection, Cardinal Blase Cupich declared Chicago should be “proud to have produced” ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

Catholics in the U.S. are used to thinking of the pope as a remote figure. Enter Pope Leo XIV, a native speaker of American ...

Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, became the first pope from the United States. Now, Chicago businesses are getting in on the ...

The man who is now known as Leo XIV becomes the 267th Bishop of Rome and the successor to Francis, one of the most liberal ...