Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was elected today by the College of Cardinals to serve as the new pope, attended ...

Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, grew up in south suburban Dolton, and attended the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in ...

This story is co-published with the Hyde Park Herald. Carlos and Rocío Rojas arrived in Chicago last June with their ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

Within minutes of the announcement, Chicagoans had Photoshopped the new pope holding an Italian beef sandwich and made at ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

When news broke Thursday about Robert Prevost's election as the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the mood throughout Chicago was joyous.

The election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new pontiff has delighted Catholics and ...

Six weeks before American Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the activist group Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) filed a complaint against him, along with other church ...

That shelter, housed in a shuttered Best Western hotel, was one of two temporary facilities set up by the city and state in ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...