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

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Contrary to early reports, the new pontiff isn't a Cubs fan — and the Sox faithful couldn't be prouder. "It's a dream," Helen ...

Pope Leo XIV called for an end to war in the world as he greeted crowds from the balcony of St Peter's Basilica on Sunday, in ...

In the right-wing loon-o-sphere, the reaction to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost becoming the first American-born pope has ...

Of course, we are all eager to learn more about the new pope, but this effort to attach significance to things that may be ...

Pope Leo XIV recently addressed the diplomatic corps of the Holy See. During this address, he reaffirmed the catholic ...

Catholics around the world were skeptical at first about an American pope. But Pope Leo XIV’s multicultural and multilingual ...

Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, graduated from Villanova in 1977 with a degree in mathematics. “What a proud and ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, said he expects Pope Leo XIV "feels an obligation," to speak to what he called ...

The new pontiff made an offer to world leaders engaged in wars, during an audience with Eastern Catholics at the Vatican May ...