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 ...

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

From priest to pope—will his missionary past define him as the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics, or will Pope Leo become ...

A new book says Chicago-born Robert Prevost might have initially been reluctant to take on the enormous responsibility.

"Living our vocation to be protectors of God's handiwork is essential to a life of virtue." Pope Leo XIV holds first 'green ...

Pope Leo XIV had a signed jersey delivered to former Chicago White Sox great Paul Konerko. Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich ...

As much of world celebrated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day on May 8, white smoke emanated from the Sistine Chapel, marking another momentous occasion: The Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year as the first American-born pontiff, but one Vatican correspondent was not. Christopher White was one of ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV is still keeping his cards close to his cassock, but people who have observed him over the years are helping ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...