It still may be hard to believe, but the new pope is from Chicago. In just a few days, those who consider Pope Leo XIV their ...

The school's students and staff expressed shock and excitement following the recent election of the first-ever American pope.

Robert Francis Prevost, now officially known as Pope Leo XIV, recently made history as the first American to ascend to the ...

The contrast between President Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally, or in ...

Pope Leo XIV graduated from Villanova University near Philadelphia, mere miles from Trump's college, Wharton School at the ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, said on Sunday that he thinks Pope Leo XIV will carry forward Francis’s ...

The 73-year-old Florida man appears to be a staunch Trump supporter who uses his Facebook account to go on the attack.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, said he expects Pope Leo XIV "feels an obligation," to speak to what he called ...

Prevost, a U.S. native and naturalized citizen of Peru, spent his childhood growing up in Chicago. Here's what we know about ...

The pontiff broke the news to 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one chat ...

So what can we expect from Prevost? His Augustinian roots suggest discipline and seriousness. And his Chicago roots, say we, ...