The Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

He urged the attendees to not 'grow weary' and to never 'underestimate the power of what you’re doing … your presence online ...

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's Basilica after being chosen the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, choosing the name of Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican ...

Credit Chicago nuns for Robert Prevost's rise to pope Pope Leo XIV is this: a Catholic schoolboy of a certain age and era who was taught by the nuns.

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

As much of world celebrated the 80th anniversary of V-E Day on May 8, white smoke emanated from the Sistine Chapel, marking ...

On the evening of July 21, the Peruvian government, led by President Dina Boluarte, presented “Leo’s Route” simultaneously ...

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

Chicago family gifts "Da Pope" t-shirt to Pope Leo XIV, emphasizing his Chicago roots and the city's NFL team during a Roman ...