The Great Pope Fight of 2025 continued between the White Sox and Cubs over Pope Leo XIV’s favorite Chicago baseball team.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

In a reflection of the breadth of Catholic thought and belief, Nashville area Catholics express excitement and some concern ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

“The former St. Mary of the Assumption building is unique for its connection to the youth of the first American pope, but it ...

Louis Prevost is equal parts excited, mind blown and a little worried about how the papacy will impact his relationship with ...

A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

Pope Leo XIV, now the successor of St. Peter, leads the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church in a sacred role that few others ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel where he was elected less than 24 hours earlier, warning of the ...

"I hope to be able to respond to [the challenges] with a healthy dialogue," said Cardinal Robert Prevost in 2023.

In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first US-born pontiff, the memes, doctored images, and ...