Pope Leo XIV’s Creole and African ancestry, traced to Louisiana and West Africa, is prompting celebration and curiosity among ...

Pope Leo XIV's busy Sunday included numerous reminders of his Chicago Roots. He was gifted a custom t-shirt emblazoned with ...

Marcel and Ann Muñoz were decked out with their three kids in shirts reading, "Da Pope" when they went to see Pope Leo XIV ...

The Chicago suburb where the first American pope grew up will buy the boyhood home of Leo XIV, which local officials have been looking to preserve as a landmark since the pontiff’s election in ...

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted unanimously on Tuesday to take control of the ...

What was once an average home in Chicago's south suburbs has now received national attention for being the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV. Village leaders called the purchase a once-in-a-lifetime ...

A bus tour centered around Pope Leo XIV’s upbringing will soon traverse the Chicago area, and tickets are already on sale. Starting in August, Chicago Pope Tour will offer four-hour guided bus ...

The village of Dolton will buy the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, cutting a deal with the property’s investor owner weeks before it was set to hit the auction block, Crain’s reported.

People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption this week mused about what the future might hold for Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church, given its new significance.

ROME — Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff Thursday, recalling that from the age of six he used to get up early to serve as an altar boy at ...

If you’re planning a pilgrimage to the pope’s hometown this summer, keep in mind that Dolton never asked to be considered remarkable. Except, in its own way, it is. Just like wherever it is ...