Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

Dan Weinberger, the owner of Weinberger's Deli in Grapevine, attended the same grade school as Pope Leo XIV, who was then known as Robert Prevost, in Riverdale, Illinois.

The celebration vibrated with joy following the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost Martínez — both a U.S. and ...

Patrick Feltz, 28, of Villa Park, sports his homemade pope hat while waiting to enter Rate Field in Chicago for a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins on May 10, 2025. It ...

"Bishop Prevost was never the kind of bishop who gave orders from behind a desk," said Janinna Sesa Córdova, who led Caritas ...

Attendees at the Mass shouted "¡Viva el Papa León!" ("Long live Pope Leo!") and "¡El papa es chiclayano!" ("The pope is a ...

Bishop Kelly expects the newly elected leader, the first American to hold the position, to carry on the synodal process embraced by his predecessor.

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...

A special prayer service is set to happen on Monday for Pope Leo at Chicago's Leo High School on the South Side.

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who travelled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...