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

A historic preservation organization is lobbying to have the childhood church of Pope Leo XIV designated as a Chicago ...

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

Language and how it’s used shapes not only the way we feel but also how we think, said Viorica Marian, professor of ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...

On Saturday, youth leaders and teenagers held the first annual Peace Carnival to help prevent summer violence. The event went ...

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 ...

(WNEM) – St. Matthew Catholic Church in Flint has been around for ... pope and even a Midwestern pope,’ right? In terms of from Chicago. And then as I learned he was an Augustinian, I thought ...

A visit to the part of Chicago where the first ... The parish church was built in 1956 to accommodate the area’s booming Catholic population, made up of the children and grandchildren of ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The bells rang for several hours in celebration of a new pope at St. John's Evangelist Catholic Church, across from the Indiana Convention Center downtown ... will celebrate the new ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Memorial Day weekend ... The event was held at the parking lot next to St. Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn Gresham. "The civil rights movement with Dr. King had the youth ...