It still may be hard to believe, but the new pope is from Chicago. In just a few days, those who consider Pope Leo XIV their ...

More than a dozen members of the Gary Memorial United Methodist Church in Wheaton already traveling in Rome witnessed papal ...

The new head of the Catholic church is a tennis fan. Within the walls of Vatican City, he will find his own court to play on.

Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

President Bola Tinubu has extended his heartfelt congratulations to His Holiness Leo XIV on his election as the Bishop of ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX/AP) - Country singer Wade Bowen, a Catholic and Waco, Texas native who graduated from Bishop Louis Reicher ...