The Great Pope Fight of 2025 continued between the White Sox and Cubs over Pope Leo XIV’s favorite Chicago baseball team.

The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, has been the topic of sports rumors since he was appointed, due to his Chicago roots, ...

In his first formal audience Saturday, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope ...

In his first remarks from the balcony, Leo XIV stressed the role of Catholics and the church as peacemakers and ...

Many sites associated with past popes’ lives have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s ...

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

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost . Maybe when the shock ...

Prevost, who chose the papal name Pope Leo XIV, grew up in south suburban Dolton, and attended Catholic Theological Union.

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

He is a man formed by his experience in the church of Chicago, especially the south side,’ writes Mark Francis, CSV.