Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

The Mass for the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate will mark the official beginning of his ministry as successor of ...

Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich participated in the conclave that elected Robert Prevost to lead the Catholic Church as pope.

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

Towering over Lafayette Square in the Historic District, the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the ... Italian marble altar and stunning stained-glass windows. What's more, a Catholic cathedral ...

He grew up in St. Mary of the Assumption parish on the Far South Side, attending school, singing in the choir and serving as an altar boy ... who worked at Holy Name Cathedral, Von Steuben ...

The liturgies focus on the formal assumption of his ... visit to St. Paul's tomb at Rome's Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, 5 p.m. -- May 25, Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran -- the ...

who served as an altar boy at the same time as the new pontiff, staring around the interior. “It’s going to have to be a basilica,” he added. St Mary of Assumption has been closed for over a ...

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which ...

Pope Leo XIV's schedule of public liturgies in May focus on the formal assumption of his Petrine ministry and Marian ...