Pope Leo XIV, recently chosen to take over for the late Pope Francis, is a Chicago White Sox fan. As is perhaps fitting for the first American pope in history. Fans found him attending a game during ...

Pope Leo, as we found out after he was chosen to lead the papacy, is a Chicago White Sox fan and not a Cubs die-hard, which has led to a lot of jokes and costumes and such. It's also led the pope to ...

Vevette Hill-Nwagbaraocha attends All Saints Catholic Church, also on the north side. She, too, is hopeful and excited about Pope Leo, regardless of how he identifies. But his lineage, she said, ...

Italian Catholics like my grandfather and great-grandfather—along with other Catholic immigrants from southern and Eastern Europe—may not have been black, but they weren’t quite white either.

Washington Auxiliary Bishop Roy E. Campbell Jr. gives the homily during a Mass on May 18, 2025 at Epiphany Catholic Church in ...

Black women are starting to pay more for their hair care because of the Trump administration’s tariffs on goods imported from China. Many Black women have hair types and workplace-favored ...

but mostly Black migrants hadn’t been exposed to Catholicism. Cressler said Catholic infrastructure dominated the South and West sides. White priests and nuns asked themselves if they should ...

they dress in black, except for Queen Letizia of Spain, who is one of seven women in the world who were granted permission to wear white around the head of the Catholic Church. The privilège du ...

A prominent Catholic newspaper is among those suggesting Pope Leo XIV may be the first Black pontiff in the Catholic ... his parents were identified as white as far back as 1920.

Whether it is black — meaning the majority has not been reached — or white — meaning the new ... Hannah Brockhaus is Catholic News Agency’s senior Vatican correspondent.

Using smoke to communicate to the public whether a new pope has been elected is somewhat a recent tradition for the Catholic Church ... of the smoke — white (positive) and black (negative ...

As the papal conclave continues, onlookers from around the world will watch for smoke in Vatican City, eager for the first update on who will be the next leader of the Catholic Church. On the ...