The Great Pope Fight of 2025 continued between the White Sox and Cubs over Pope Leo XIV’s favorite Chicago baseball team.

In his first formal audience Saturday, Leo made clear he will follow in the modernizing reforms of his predecessor, Pope ...

In his first remarks from the balcony, Leo XIV stressed the role of Catholics and the church as peacemakers and ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

CHICLAYO, Peru — The people of northern Peru call him el obispo. Sometimes he is also Padre Prevost . Maybe when the shock ...

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.

Prevost, who chose the papal name Pope Leo XIV, grew up in south suburban Dolton, and attended Catholic Theological Union.

He is a man formed by his experience in the church of Chicago, especially the south side,’ writes Mark Francis, CSV.

When white smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel revealing that a new pope had been chosen, John Prevost turned on his ...

The election of Pope Leo XIV, who is the first U.S. pope and has Creole roots, is raising more awareness about the complexity ...

The Fox Sports camera could have panned to any fan during the ninth inning of Game 1 of the 2005 World Series; it randomly ...

The pope's maternal grandparents are described as Black or a person of mixed white and Black ancestry in historical documents ...