The Campus Ministries office at the University of St. Thomas in Midtown doubled as a Conclave watch party on Wednesday as they watched the selection of the new pope. Alyssa Bursch, a freshman on that ...

The first American elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago before undertaking his ministry in Peru.

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the ...

As the red velvet curtains at the Vatican parted, a priest realized that his college pal from the South Side of Chicago that ...

From delivering help to flood-ravaged regions to singing Christmas songs to blessing babies, Pope Leo XIV tried to be a ...

As a priest ordained in 1982, four years into the papacy of St John Paul II, Pope Leo XIV knows how transformative the office can be. The former Cardinal Robert Prevost’s choice of papal name is ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Prelates who voted in the conclave played down the new pope’s American roots. In his first Mass as pontiff, Leo pledged to ...

At one point during while being interviewed, John Prevost realized he had missed several calls from his brother, so he gave ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...