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 ...

Chicagoans celebrated the historic election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the U.S. and a Chicago native, with joy and ...

A special prayer was delivered at Holy Name Cathedral Sunday for Pope Leo XIV. The church held its first Sunday mass since ...

"It's been an unbelievable week, obviously, for all of us," said Mark Duffey, who was ordained as a deacon at St. Thomas of ...

A special mass is underway at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral for the first American-born pope. Pope Leo XIV grew up in South ...

While part of the mass was dedicated to Pope Leo XIV, many parishioners also came to celebrate Mother's Day. Shardaa Gray ...

The reaction among church leaders to the news of Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost being named the first American pope ...

The Associated Press spoke with tourists who were excited to visit Holy Name Cathedral in Pope Leo XIV's hometown of Chicago.

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

A man takes a picture of a brochure that reads "A prayer of thankfulness for the election of Pope Leo XIV" during a mass at ...

Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...

Parishioners at Holy Name Cathedral, the seat of the Archdiocese of Chicago, shed tears of joy after learning a Chicago ...