The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...

Long Islanders were among those who packed St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City when Pope Leo was elected the first American ...

The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for ...

The sanctuary is run by the religious of the Order of St. Augustine and “houses an ancient image of the Virgin, dear to the ...

Hours after being named the 267th leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV gave his first public speech on May 8, and many thought it was a subtle jab at President Donald Trump. During his ...

Fight! ” The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “ Peace.” The contrast between ...

Leo, who was born in Chicago, signed a baseball that someone held out to him. A woman in the line asked him for a selfie — a ...

Some conservatives and traditionalist Catholics are cautiously optimistic over the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, hopeful ...

While Pope Leo XIV presides over a flock of 1.4 billion people from within Vatican City, there’s one worldly responsibility ...

Pope Paul VI was the first pope to visit the U.S., making the historic trip in 1965 when he addressed the United Nations in New York City. Since then, Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis ...

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

Standing on loggia of St. Peter’s basilica, newly elected Pope Leo XIV smiled, waved and appeared to hold back emotion May 8 ...