There are about 15,000 Peruvians in Illinois ... minister of youth at St. Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham, learned that she had family members who also migrated to Chicago from the South in ...

As police were dispersing a late-night gathering of young people, a gunman drove by and opened fire on the crowd, Chicago ...

Prevost and his two brothers, Louis and John, were altar boys at St. Mary of the Assumption parish in Dolton, on the south side of Chicago ... him far from his native Illinois.

Lionor Zamora went to St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church for ... heavy lobbying for Chicago to be on the itinerary when he comes to the United States.” Pope Benedict XVI traveled to ...

POPE Leo XIV appears on the central loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica after ... fear of too much American influence in the church. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Prevost joined a Catholic religious ...

By 1978, 2,000 of those families attended the church, according to the two-volume book, “A History of the Parishes of the Archdiocese Chicago.” Pope Leo XIV’s was one of them. But St. Mary ...

When the 69-year-old Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost on May 8, 2025, appeared on the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for the ... fear of too much American influence in the church. Born in Chicago ...

“I’m really proud,” said Noelle Neis, a childhood friend who, with her four siblings, grew up in the same parish as the Prevosts, the old St. Mary of the Assumption on Chicago’s border ...

The naming of the first U.S. pope prompted plenty of celebration in Central Illinois ... was born in Chicago and educated in Michigan before serving at a church in St. Louis.

Americans gathered in St ... Chicago, my hometown, to represent the Catholic Church. I’m so proud.” Credit: Courtney Mares/CNA He recounted a conversation with a priest from Champaign ...

Muslims in the pontiff's native city want to see Francis’ social justice approach to Christian-Muslim relations continue.