The election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, as the new pontiff has delighted Catholics and officials alike.

The pilgrimage, which starts May 18 in Indianapolis, will travel north in Illinois and then west across cross country, ending ...

The announcement: After a new pope is chosen, a senior cardinal steps onto a balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and proclaims into a microphone, “Habemus papam,” a Latin phrase meaning, “We have a pope.” ...

While some married Protestant ministers had been ordained as Catholic priests after World War II, and Pope Paul VI opened the ...

“I had a sense early on that I had a call to this vocation,” Medow said.

In their first week of pilgrimage, eight young adults witnessed a bishop bless his diocese with the Eucharist via helicopter, ...

The Chicago Diocese will hold a Mass of Thanksgiving ... women’s ordination and is pro-choice. The leader of the Roman Catholic Church does not get paid what many consider a traditional salary.