The new Pope is inaugurated in St Peter's on Sunday. Then the great wave of public and media interest in the Catholic Church will subside. A few more people can now tell a pallium from a chasuble. A ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost will now be known to the world as Pope Leo XIV. At 69, he is seven years younger than ...

A week after the white smoke signaled the election of the new pope, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle reunited with Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, in a private audience at the Vatican.

He got on very well with seminarians,” Meléndez said. “He was very open, reliable, sympathetic — and he loved talking to everyone in person.” ...

A statue of the Divine Child of the Miracle is the Christ Child wearing a traditional straw hat and set in at the center of ...

Those from the Chicago-area close to Pope Leo XIV are making their way to Rome for his installation Mass Sunday. A teacher from Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox leaves for Rome Friday.

Pope Leo XIV spent two decades ministering in Peru. He became part of Peruvian society and, eventually, a leader within it.

The election of Chicagoan Pope Leo XIV (né Robert Prevost) to the papacy has been a cause for celebration for Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, is a native of Chicago who spent the first third of his life in the United States before his ministry took him to Peru and, more recently, to ...

Pope Leo says family is based on ‘union between a man and a woman’ - The new pontiff has affirmed core Catholic teachings on ...

The elevation of Pope Leo XIV has sparked an atmosphere of jubilation at Villanova University, his alma mater.

On top of the weighty tasks assumed by Pope Leo XIV upon his election as pontiff, the Middle East's most senior churchmen ...