Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

Hundreds of pro-life Catholics and supporters gathered Saturday morning June 7 for Mass, a march through Center City ...

Even the new pope is hyped about baseball season. Pope Leo XIV was spotted wearing a Chicago White Sox hat recently at the ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

When John Paul II was elected to serve as pope, he became the first and only pope to call Poland his native country and home. As such, he used his position and status to advocate the end of the Cold ...

Pope Leo XIV has left no doubt. After initial doubts as to whether the Chicago native was a Cubs or White Sox fan, his ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

A lot is planned for this Flag Day, from 'No Kings Day' protests of President Donald Trump's policies to a papal speech to a ...

In a sermon on a major Christian holiday, Pope Leo XIV appeared to take a shot at travel bans recently put in place by ...

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Fuzhou, China.

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...