This is a time of change for Latino Catholics, currently about 40 percent of the U.S. Church, and who experts say are likely ...

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark ...

The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark ...

Before Robert F. Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, he was apparently keeping a close eye on at least one major Illinois issue. Documents obtained by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times through a public ...

Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has a patchwork background that speaks to the melting pot that is the United States — and his birthplace, the city of Chicago.

Born Robert Francis Prevost in 1955, the new Pope hails from the South Side — a part of the Windy City that was defined in the 1950s and ’60s by unpretentiousness, hard work and tight-knit ...

“And he was very smart.” Pope Leo XIV has Chicago-area parish roots Leo was born Robert Francis Prevost in 1955 at Mercy Hospital, about 3 miles south of the city’s iconic downtown Loop area.

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in ...

Catholics across the region are celebrating the historic announcement that the first North American pope in the 2,000-year history of the church was born and raised in the Chicago area.