Excitement continues to run high about the new pope inside the halls of Providence Catholic High School in New Lenox. Pope ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

Diocesan leaders didn't know the name of the minor seminary where Leo studied, but said it was part of the Augustinian order.

Catholics in metro Detroit are praising the first American to be pope, who once lived in Michigan, saying he will continue ...