Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Italians — and Romans in particular — have had mixed responses to the so-called “American pope.” Most are cautiously ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen as the 267th Pope elected by 133 cardinals locked inside the Sistine ...

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

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

Less than a month after the death of Pope Francis, a baseball signed by the late Catholic leader sold for $18,750 at RR ...

Pope Leo XIV gave an initial blessing to the idea of the Vatican Tennis Invitational, wryly adding, “Just don’t bring [Jannik ...