The American Pope is pointing others to Christ by first attracting them through his relatability — including his love of ...

Growing up in her Chicago parish, Pope Leo XIV’s mother experienced ritual on a grand scale and attended Immaculata High School.

Pope Leo XIV’s father, Louis Marius Prevost, was a Navy veteran, who led the local Altar and Rose Society and served as a ...

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Rogers Griffin was hired to shut the school down. Instead, he helped save it—and led it for more than two decades. LAFAYETTE PARISH — When Rogers Griffin first stepped into Holy Family ...

VATICAN CITY — After Chicago native Pope Leo XIV made history as the first American elected pontiff, the Rev. Homero Sánchez sent him a quick text saying, “Congratulations Holy Pope.” ...

In one of Chicago’s ... mixed and devout family in the tight-knit, working-class village of Dalton, Illinois. Their hub was a now-shuttered Catholic parish and school in a dense metro area ...

And a Catholic priest. All that makes Medow one more thing: “A curiosity.” That’s certainly how the parishioners at Holy Spirit Catholic ... Born and raised on Chicago’s north side ...

By Julie Bosman Reporting from Chicago ... in the Catholic culture that revolved around the family parish, St. Mary of the Assumption, on the city’s South Side. Catholic school was a ...

At a small Catholic elementary school on the south side of Chicago, Michael Winters and ... and I was like, ‘Holy smokes!’” he recounted with a laugh. At such a small school and parish ...

The pope grew up in a Catholic enclave on Chicago ... future pope and his family were parishioners there in the 1950s and ’60s. All three brothers attended elementary school at the parish ...

Holy Family ... with the school children to jump up and down," said Robert. Related: Tulsa Catholics celebrate as Leo XIV is elected first American pope He is originally from Chicago, like the ...