Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

Wondering who Pope Leo XIV’s favorite saint is? A Peruvian missionary priest who is a close friend and confidant of the ...

Bishop Polanco celebrated his last Mass at the Teruel seminary and was arrested eight days later, remaining a prisoner of the ...

Photo: Alamy Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday, marking a significant encounter with the ...

"He’s the one who gave me permission to stay there" in 2000, James M. Ray, the former priest, told the Chicago Sun-Times ...

The new leader of the Catholic Church has a distinction that goes beyond being the first pope from the United States. Records ...

Photos of "a pope in muddy boots" began circulating on social media shortly after Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Leo XIV. The story behind the images tells of a pastor in close kinship ...

The White Sox unveiled a graphic installation Monday that pays tribute to the new pontiff and that moment during their last ...

Peter Jones and a group of Loyola University Chicago educators traveled to Rome for an hour private meeting with Pope Francis. As the white ...

“The pope is not your friend. He is not going to sit down and have a beer with you,” he says. “If you think the pope is your ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

The new pope will have to get up to speed on international issues facing the world. Everyone is watching to see if he is up ...