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

“After all, this church and school complex is located at a far corner of the city — far from the central area and downtown ..

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

Outside Holy Name Cathedral, the centre of the Catholic Church in downtown Chicago, workers were hanging bunting to prepare for a special mass on Friday morning. Father Gregory Sakowicz, rector 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.

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches and celebrated from their ... Holy Name Cathedral is seen Thursday, May 8, 2025, in downtown Chicago. Credit: AP/Erin Hooley “How cool is that?" ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic ... Cathedral in downtown Chicago tolled ...

Crowds materialized outside Holy Name Cathedral downtown, considered the ... just south of the city and attended a Catholic church and school on Chicago’s South Side. Image The future Pope ...