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Michael Pham, who was named bishop of San Diego, California, by Pope Leo in May, wrote a letter about the action on Wednesday ...
As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.
Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.
Tadahito Iguchi. Esteban Loaiza. Liam Hendriks. These are all Chicago White Sox of yore that the literal Pope has definitely ...
Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...
Pope Leo XIV waves after walking onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope and the first ...
Much has been reported about Pope Leo XIV's earliest days of playing priest at the family's home in Dolton, a suburb south of ...
Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.
The pope is a Chicago White Sox fan. Pope Leo XIV rocked a hat with the South Siders’ logo at the Vatican on Wednesday, ...
In a sermon on a major Christian holiday, Pope Leo XIV appeared to take a shot at travel bans recently put in place by ...
After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...