Pope Leo's grandfather was born in Italy in 1876 and came to the United States in 1905, eventually making his way to Chicago. His grandson took the opposite route, starting in Chicago and moving to ...

Then Leo came along. Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion ...

Chicagoans in Rome this weekend who knew the former Robert Prevost during his religious studies on the South Side and work in ...

Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn ...

Pope Leo XIV has called for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people ...

Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.