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

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

Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics in Chicago.

The journey of Bob Prevost of the South Side of Chicago to Pope Leo XIV of the Holy See could not have been foreseen when the new pope was a Chicago kid in the 1960s or when he was a math major at ...

Sara Schroeder, left, and her daughter, Caitlin Thigpen, outside Holy Name Cathedral on Sunday. “This is a piece of history — American history and Chicago history,” Schroeder said.

CHICAGO — When Pope John Paul II visited Chicago in 1979, an estimated 1.5 million people flocked to see the Holy Father, who said a three-hour Mass in Grant Park. The Chicago Tribune called it ...

The faithful also worshipped Sunday at Holy Name Cathedral, where the new pope was honor with a special prayer, and other churches in the Chicago area.

Prevost was elected to be the 267th pope on May 8, 2025 and took the name Pope Leo XIV. Leo “had a social justice bent,” said Lego, who is now a pastor of Chicago’s St. Turibius Parish.

The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here's what to know about him.

'DA POPE!' Leo XIV's Chicago roots unleash spate of holy humor The memes, image edits and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded than its hot dog.