The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

Robert Prevost now holds the highest office in the Catholic Church. One of his childhood ... at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago and of the University of Notre Dame's Basilica of the ...

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...

In Chicago, people are very excited about Pope Leo XIV, or Father Bob, as those who’ve known Robert Francis Prevost a long ...

A historic preservation organization is lobbying to have the childhood church of Pope Leo XIV designated as a Chicago ...

Pope Leo’s hometown in the south suburbs was hit with economic hardship after the collapse of the steel industry on the Far ...

(WNEM) – St. Matthew Catholic Church in Flint has been around for ... pope and even a Midwestern pope,’ right? In terms of from Chicago. And then as I learned he was an Augustinian, I thought ...

A visit to the part of Chicago where the first ... The parish church was built in 1956 to accommodate the area’s booming Catholic population, made up of the children and grandchildren of ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

"And even others who are not Catholic claim the pope as their own." Outside Holy Name Cathedral downtown ... that it was an exciting day for the church. "Additionally, it's a day of great excitement ...