A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised the Vatican’s new pope with a Chicago Bears-themed gift Sunday. The Muñoz ...

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark ...

According to real estate records and a report in the New York Times, Pawel Radzik purchased the home as a flip property for $66,000 in 2024. His intentions changed this spring when the College of ...

A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

A new book says Chicago-born Robert Prevost might have initially been reluctant to take on the enormous responsibility.

The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

WGN-TV aired a one-hour special, “Pope Leo XIV: From Chicago to the World,” hosted by Dina Bair, offering an in-depth look at the life and rise of Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo … ...

“I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of good here in the city that recommends itself to the church.” ...

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, say they filed a complaint against Cardinal Robert Prevost weeks before his papal election.

Chicago-area priest accused of sexual misconduct kicked out of Augustinian order The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians ...

Pope Leo was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago on September 14, 1955. He's seen here on the left with his mother, Mildred, and his brothers John and Louis.

Between a crosstown baseball rivalry for papal support, billboards, church services and many memes, the Chicago roots of missionary Robert Prevost haven’t been lost on much of the city and ...