Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...

The Papal conclave has elected Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Here’s what we know ...

The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

Twenty days into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV’s appointment style remains largely unknown — but his years leading the Diocese of ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Chicago’s celebration of Pope Leo XIV’s election will take place June 14 at Rate Field, home of the White Sox. Leo, a native ...

Pope Leo IV has been invited to throw the first pitch at a White Sox game whenever he wants to, according to a White Sox executive.

Confounding the prognostication of oddsmakers and Vatican watchers everywhere, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as ...

I, among many Catholics, were surprised once again by the papal conclave election of Pope Leo XIV. I honestly was expecting the election of Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle — I ...

The new pontiff has signaled the direction he intends to take his papacy in handling certain social questions that need moral ...

Since news of the new pope, Robert Prevost, who assumed the name Leo XIV, hit the wires, he has been universally celebrated as being an American from Chicago.