The Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new ...

A Vatican opinion released shortly before Pope Francis died advises against public church listings of clergy members deemed to have been credibly accused of sexual abuse — which virtually every ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly known as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost before he was elected the first American pope earlier this ...

A survivor of clergy sex abuse in Peru brought her public campaign for reform to the American hometown of Pope Leo XIV.

Philadelphia Archbishop Nelson Perez Wednesday gave Pope Leo XIV, a Villanova University graduate, an Eagles Super Bowl championship hat.

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

One new American archbishop says having a pope from Chicago is something to think about, since “Catholicism in Chicago has ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

Robert Mickens has been reporting and commenting on the Vatican and the Catholic Church the past four decades through his celebrated weekly Letter from Rome. Mickens arrived in Rome in 1986 to study ...

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

Discover how the village of Dolton, Illinois, is reviving its past by purchasing the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV and working to obtain landmark status.

No one understands this better than our current pope, Robert Francis Prevost. He was born and raised in a middle-class suburb of South Chicago, and the chance to realize and make the most of the ...