More than one billion Catholics are praying tonight for the first pope born in the United States. Pope Leo XIV grew up in Chicago and has ties to Tulsa. News On 6's Sam Carrico tells us how one Cascia ...

The new pope, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has signaled that his identity will defy easy categorization.

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

As Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, he spoke a few words in English. It was a reminder - if anyone needed one - that a baseball fan who hails from ...

The pontiff had lived in the house full-time until going off to a Michigan seminary for high school in 1969 and following ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Leo urged an end to the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. "I carry in my heart the suffering of the beloved ...

“Robert Prevost was a missionary bishop who gave himself fully to his people and who played an important role in the church of his new country, Peru. In fact, he became a Peruvian citizen,” Canadian ...

From communicating values ??to building narratives, Pope Leo XIV will impact an audience of 1.4 billion Catholics ...

In Peru, Pope Leo XIV is known as the saintly missionary who waded through mud after torrential rains flooded the region, ...

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