Though Heidi Nicholls Bowser left Chicago’s South Side for Butler more than 30 years ago, the ties to her birthplace have ...

"For many years, he used to come and go," the Rev. Thomas Vathappallil of St. Rita's in Racine County said about Pope Leo Friday.

A group of 53 Catholics from various parishes across Northwest Ohio, including St. John XXII in Perrysburg, planned a trip to Rome roughly a year ago. Little did they know then, it would be during the ...

Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States ...

"The other countries in the world can suck it. Because the Pope's American!" Bill Maher says on HBO's "Real Time" ...

Two local priests had the chance to meet the new Pope when he was known as Father Bob Prevost. Now, the Midwesterner is ...

The memes, image edits and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded than its hot ...

Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

Chicago’s Bishop John Siemianowski joins WGN Radio’s Dave Plier to talk about Chicago’s own Pope Leo XIV, the expected direction of the Catholic Church and is the new Pope a Cubs fan or Sox ...

Those who met Pope Leo XIV before his papal appointment are still processing the news of his elevation to the Catholic Church's highest office on Thursday.

Pope Leo XIV, in remarks in 2012 when he was the Augustinian prior general in Chicago, made comments critical of what he called the “homosexual lifestyle” and the role of mass media in promoting ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...