Funding shortfalls. Proximity to active railroads. Two additional impediments to completion of the 26-mile Silver Bow Creek Greenway would seem at first blush like low-hanging fruit. Atlantic ...

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered for Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88 after 12 years at the head of the ...

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, telling church cardinals that they should take up that “precious legacy” and ...

In the eyes of many LGBTQ Catholics, the late Pope Francis created a “seismic shift” toward acceptance. Now, as the world welcomes the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, these lesbian, gay ...

By Emma Bubola Reporting from Vatican City In his first formal address to Roman Catholic cardinals, Pope Leo XIV on Saturday said he would continue the work of Pope Francis in steering the church ...

On May 8, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as Pope Leo XIV. He was born in Chicago and raised on the South side of town. Many Americans, particularly in Chicago, have reveled in his ...

The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a wide-ranging interview in January 2021.

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...

Leo XIV reportedly brings more reserved approach as Pope Francis' successor. Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The world is ...

The brother of Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, said the newly elected pontiff will likely follow in the late Pope Francis’s footsteps to serve and look out for “those who don’t have a ...

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, was elected pope this Thursday, on the second day of the conclave convened in Vatican City following the death of Pope Francis.

Norman C. Francis, the trailblazing former president of Xavier University of Louisiana, continues to leave his mark on the storied New Orleans institution as it celebrates its 100th anniversary ...