Robert Prevost was elected the new pontiff after the fourth ballot of the conclave yesterday, taking the name Leo XIV. He is the first Pope from the United States and the first from the Augustinian ...

“DA POPE!” blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city’s unique accent, ...

Cardinal Bychok light-heartedly described it as "the best time of my life" and encouraged everyone to give it a go. "Just try ...

Pope Leo XIV said yesterday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing, as he celebrated his first mass. Details began to emerge yesterday of how votes quickly coalesced to make him ...

This intersection of faith and fandom is the kind of bit that only baseball can provide. The new pope is a White Sox fan — ...

Sister Therese DelGenio taught Pope Leo XIV as he earned a Master of Divinity from the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.

Very human, very humble, but very discerning.” This is how Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle described then Cardinal Robert Francis ...

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - After the Conclave elected the world’s first American Pope, a local college student says she went through Catholic Confirmation at the hands of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Robert ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass in Sistine Chapel.

Papal Conclave selected an American as the new pope. Cardinal Robert Prevost, was born in Chicago in 1955, and is the first ...

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...