At St. Mary of the Assumption school in Chicago’s southern suburbs, Robert Prevost was quiet, kind and studious. Mostly, he ...

Erik Pohlmeier, bishop of the Diocese of St. Augustine, is one of many welcoming Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a ...

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — has been welcomed with American capitalism in his home city, with ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as Pope Leo XIV, the first US-born pontiff, succeeding the late Pope Francis.

Patrick Feltz, 28, of Villa Park, sports his homemade pope hat while waiting to enter Rate Field in Chicago for a baseball game between the Chicago White Sox and the Miami Marlins on May 10, 2025. It ...

Leo also means “Lion.” Online sources say a lion symbolizes “courage, strength, power, leadership and majesty. In some ...

He lashed out at Martha Raddatz for suggesting “Pope Leo’s selection had nothing to do with Donald Trump,” which she didn’t ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

In our weekly late night TV recap, every single host tells the same Chicago Pope jokes, and Oliver goes deep into the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

The former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, elected as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pope, is a tennis-loving, wordle-playing, ...

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...