Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

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

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

The Catholic religious order's Chicago-based province released a statement about Robert Prevost, who this week became Pope ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S.

I just didn’t think there would be an American pope in this geopolitical climate,” one respondent said. The post The new pope ...

They were always there,” Ms. Neis said, adding, “The community revolved around the church.” Today, the old Catholic enclave ...