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

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, but now, one name has been coming up as a ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen as the 267th Pope elected by 133 cardinals locked inside the Sistine ...

Pope Francis' successor has been elected, and it's the first American pope. Here's what we know about Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

An American is now leading the Roman Catholic Church and more than 2 billion Catholics around the world. Cardinal Robert ...

Italians — and Romans in particular — have had mixed responses to the so-called “American pope.” Most are cautiously ...

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Pope Leo XIV gave an initial blessing to the idea of the Vatican Tennis Invitational, wryly adding, “Just don’t bring [Jannik ...