Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first American pope in the 2,000-year history ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton and attended St. Mary’s parish before becoming Pope Leo XIV.

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

Students, alumni, family, and supporters packed the Leo Catholic High ... chose the name Leo in honor of Pope Leo VIII. His legacy inspired the founding of the all-boys Catholic school in 1926.

Crowds materialized outside Holy Name ... a Catholic church and school on Chicago’s South Side. Image The future Pope Leo XIV standing fourth from left with his second-grade class at St. Mary ...

Sister Johnson ministered in education at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Rochester; St. Paul, Oswego; Christ the King, Irondequoit; ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad “Our students are just beside themselves," said Mary Perrotti ... taught in local Catholic schools, including at St. Rita High School, according ...

Yasmina Szymczak‘s camera roll is filled with photos of what she said was a life-changing trip. They are photos of her ...

Like St. Mary’s, other Catholic institutions that helped ... mentions jobs she had in the libraries at Holy Name Cathedral, Von Steuben High School on the North Side and at Mendel from 1969 ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New Orleans, from a famous Voodoo priestess to the self-proclaimed inventor of ...

He later studied theology at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago in Hyde Park and taught in local Catholic schools, including at St. Rita High School ... At Holy Name Cathedral, about ...