Pennsylvania and Ireland have had a long and rich historical association. It stretches back to the era of William Penn in the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope from Chicago, could boost interest in the Catholic Church, potentially increasing ...

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 ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

The first American elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV was born and raised in Chicago before undertaking his ministry in Peru. Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches and celebrated from their homes as ...

The American Robert Prevost has been announced ... But who is the new leader of the Catholic Church, and what can he be expected to bring to the papacy? Vatican correspondent for global Catholic ...

Doyle also pointed to the last pope to use the name Leo, Pope Leo XIII, who was the head of the Catholic ... 18th century happened, and the philosophical revolutions of the 19th century, the ...

Read more › Catholics in America: The election of the first American pope comes at a time when 20 percent of American adults identify as Catholic ... the church saw it in the late 19th century, ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

Fr. Joseph MacNeill with New Haven Catholic Churches reacts to Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV being elected the first American pope. Vladimir Putin Sends Message to Leo XIV, First American Pope Bill ...

CHICAGO (AP) — After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been chosen to lead the Catholic church in a historic move. The 69-year-old will be the first pontiff from the United States. Brisbane’s Archbishop told Gary ...