A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American to ascend to the papacy, has voted in three Republican primary elections since 2012, state ...

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, has participated in seven separate contests since 2012, including three Republican primaries.

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

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

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced ...

The man who is now known as Leo XIV becomes the 267th Bishop of Rome and the successor to Francis, one of the most liberal ...

Following the papal conclave’s historic selection, Cardinal Blase Cupich declared Chicago should be “proud to have produced” ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the new pope, Leo XIV, and the internet made many memes celebrating ...

Robert Prevost, born in Chicago, became the first pope from the United States. Now, Chicago businesses are getting in on the ...