Not long after the white smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City and news broke that Robert Prevost ...

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

I don’t know if you’ve heard already, but there’s a new pope in town. Not only is he American — the first U.S.-born head of the Catholic Church — but he’s also from Chicago, which is close enough to ...

A Baltimore Orioles fan from Colorado was gifted a precious signed baseball by the new American pope—but not before being ...

The childhood home of Pope Leo XIV is pictured in the Dolton suburb of Chicago, May 9, 2025. Pope Leo, formally Cardinal ...

Cardinal Robert F. Prevost becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first North American elected pope, continuing Pope Francis' legacy of ...