In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

The pope, or the head of the Catholic Church, is followed by well over a billion people across the globe. He is also the ...

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Some statisticians claim that each of us is no more than six degrees of separation from any other person on the planet. With that as a rough measure, Chicagoans were cheered to learn last week that ...

Nothing compares to the pageantry of a papal election, not the coronation of a British monarch, a presidential inauguration ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ ...

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St. Matthew Catholic Church in Flint has been around for years, becoming a common sight for those in the city, but a piece of its history is now anything but common.

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis ...

While he seems to be following in the footsteps of Francis, Robert Prevost is more elusive than his predecessors who ascended ...

Prime Minister Dick Schoof wishes the new Pope Leo XIV “much strength and wisdom with his important and responsible mission.” ...