Justin Brannan, a city councilman from Bay Ridge running in the Democratic primary, used to play guitar for the hardcore ...

The Chicago native and confirmed Sox fan formerly known as Robert Prevost couldn’t help but get caught up in a White Sox ...

CHICAGO –– Pope Leo XIV has been an unexpected yet prominent part of the 2025 White Sox season. On Wednesday, a video emerged on social media of him joining in as people chanted "White Sox" outside ...

Thursday brought further hard proof of how deep the Pope's fandom runs. In a viral video posted on TikTok, a group of Americans went to see the Pope in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City and started ...

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 ...

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 ...

Later, influxes of white Catholic immigrants—then considered “ethnic whites”—formed “ethnic parishes” in cities that excluded Black Catholics. As the dominance of those parishes waned ...

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.

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 ...