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

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 ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

At the time Pope Francis picked Bishop Gregg Caggianelli, then-Cardinal Robert Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — was running the Vatican office that selects and vets prospective bishops. Cardinal ...

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 ...