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

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

The new pontiff’s home city has welcomed him with jokey tropes, from its deep dish pizzas to stained-glass windows depicting ...

As details of Pope Leo XIV's past life come to light many are struck by his Chicago roots and his Chicago-ness.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a little known missionary from Chicago, was elected as a surprise choice to be the new leader of the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born and Peruvian dual citizen, was elected as the first American Pope and is expected to be a ...

FROM a budding maths genius in the US to an adventurous missionary in Peru – horse riding Pope Leo XIV has now reached the ...

Pope Leo’s life begins in Chicago, where he was born on Sept ... elevated to one of the most powerful offices within the Catholic Church, Leo insisted that his identity remained rooted in ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

The formal inauguration Mass – for the first US pontiff in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church – will be ... Cardinal Reinhard Marx said Pope Leo had a breadth of experience ...

Hailing from Chicago, Prevost—who has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV—is the first American Pope. But his service in the ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...