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

Leo, born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of Saint Augustine at 22 years old after graduating ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first ...

Like so many of us, in and out of the Catholic faith, I never thought I’d see an American pope. Robert Cardinal Prevost. A ...

All four of Pope Leo XIV’s maternal great-grandparents were “free people of color” in Louisiana based on 19th-century census ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...

Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is the first American to lead the Catholic Church and his two older brothers ...

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He visited and stayed overnight on several occasions at the school located on Padre Damián street, where he is remembered as ...

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

Erick Fedde, who started 21 games for the historically bad 2024 White Sox, joked that Pope Leo XIV maybe "had to pray a few ...

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