American cardinals who voted in the conclave played down the significance of the new pope’s roots in the United States, ...

The first American Pope was elected to lead the Catholic Church on Thursday, and the Catholic Community in New Orleans is ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St ... Times has reported that his father was an educator and his mother a librarian. He has two brothers, Louis ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

Though he spent much of his life abroad, the new Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, hails from the Chicago area, ...

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis gets underway Wednesday. In total, 133 ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the ...

Another St. Mary’s classmate, Peggy Wurtz, remembered Prevost singing at midnight Mass with his mother ... Prevost’s father, Louis, was an educator who led Glenwood School District 167 ...

He comes from Chicago, Illinois, the son of Louis and Mildred Prevost. Growing up, the family attended St. Mary of the ... told the Chicago Sun-Times. “They went to Mass on a daily basis.

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis gets underway Wednesday. In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming with emotion.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.