A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised the Vatican’s new pope with a Chicago Bears-themed gift Sunday. The Muñoz ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

Chicago family gifts "Da Pope" t-shirt to Pope Leo XIV, emphasizing his Chicago roots and the city's NFL team during a Roman ...

A new book suggests Chicago-born Robert Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage of $49 on it and it was owned by the Prevost family for nearly 50 years.

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

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from Southern Italy, about his old friend being ...

A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised Pope Leo XIV with a "Da Pope" NFL and SNL-themed gift in a moment that's gone ...

The home in which Pope Leo XIV spent much of his childhood has been officially acquired by the village in which it is located ...

White Sox great Paul Konerko got a present from one No. 14 to another in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 2005 World Series championship run — a jersey signed by noted Chicago fan Pope Leo XIV.

Before Robert F. Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he was apparently keeping a close eye on at least one major Illinois issue. Documents obtained by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times through a public ...

The first U.S.-born pope is from Chicago and attended graduate school in Hyde Park. An underdog in the papal conclave, Cardinal Robert Prevost shocked the world when he made his debut as Pope Leo XIV ...