The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, became the first American pope in 2025. He began his religious life at St. Mary ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Two men were fatally wounded in a triple shooting overnight on the North Side in the Edgewater neighborhood, Chicago police said. Officers responded about 1:20 a.m. Saturday to a call of a person ...

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 the ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.

Chicagoans have predictably reacted in grandiose fashion with humor and genuine affection for South Sider Robert Prevost as ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

Learn more about Pope Leo XIV after he was selected to become the first American-born pontiff. Robert Francis Prevost grew up ...

Within minutes of the announcement, Chicagoans had Photoshopped the new pope holding an Italian beef sandwich and made at ...

Good morning, Chicago. The announcement made after white smoke poured from the poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel yesterday marked a historic one nationally and a personal one for many in ...