A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised the Vatican’s new pope with a Chicago Bears-themed gift Sunday. The Muñoz ...

The Muñoz family waited two hours in the heat to meet the pope after Mass on Sunday at the Cathedral of Albano in Albano Laziale, a town outside Rome, near where Leo is spending a six-week summer ...

A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised Pope Leo XIV with a "Da Pope" NFL and SNL-themed gift in a moment that's gone ...

The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

A new book suggests Chicago-born Robert Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

According to real estate records and a report in the New York Times, Pawel Radzik purchased the home as a flip property for $66,000 in 2024. His intentions changed this spring when the College of ...

Pope Leo XIV's busy Sunday Mass included several reminders of his Chicago roots, including a gifted custom t-shirt emblazoned with an SNL message ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the first American pontiff in the church's 2,000-year history.