"The Pope is from Chicago. This is one of the biggest moments in the modern history of our city," said Mayor Brandon Johnson ...

Port Charlotte (United States) (AFP) – Louis Prevost is still reckoning with what just happened in his family. His little brother, Robert Francis Prevost, is now Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope ...

His tally was rising with each round of voting, while support for the early front-runner—Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin—was ...

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Bronzeville and raised in the south suburbs, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are ...

In sports-loving Chicago, city teams were spun in a swell of papal humor. Initial belief that the pope’s baseball loyalties ...

Born in the Windy City in 1955 to parents of Spanish and Franco-Italian descent, Prevost served as an altar boy and was ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

Chicagoans celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, a native son, as he becomes the first American pope in history, bringing a ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — grew up in Chicago, ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-native, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s ...