Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

The Prevost family belonged to the now-shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in the Riverdale neighborhood on the South ...

Chicago-born Robert Prevost was elected Thursday as the first pope ever from the United States. He chose Leo XIV as his papal ...

Robert Prevost, 69, now known as Pope Leo XIV, attended St. Augustine Seminary in Laketown Township, now known as Felt ...

An early morning fire forced students and staff to evacuate a girls dormitory at a Connecticut boarding school on Tuesday.

But in Chicago, they heard something else ... enrolling in St. Augustine Seminary High School near Holland, Mich., a boarding school for boys. There, he lived in the Augustinian tradition ...

Raised in Chicago, formed as a bishop in Peru, and forged by St. Augustine’s witness, Leo XIV begins his papacy with a quiet ...

Learn more about Pope Leo XIV after he was selected to become the first American-born pontiff. Robert Francis Prevost grew up ...

CHICAGO – At St. Mary of the Assumption ... But both wound up attending St. Augustine Catholic Seminary boarding school in Michigan, studying at Villanova University in Philadelphia and earning ...

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