The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

Centennial Christian Church leaders plan to rebuild with a new campus after the historic church collapsed in the May 16 ...

Now that the world's most famous Catholic is an American from Chicago, some hope Pope Leo XIV will help bring new energy to a ...

Meet Donna, who lives next door to Pope Leo XIV's childhood home in Dolton, IL. She says the home was recently a hub of drug ...

CHICAGO — Above the door of the church in the last blocks of Chicago ... People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on May 8 mused about what the future might hold ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Survivors of clergy sexual abuse amplified calls Tuesday for a global zero-tolerance policy from the new ...

"He’s the one who gave me permission” to stay at a Hyde Park monastery in 2000, former priest James M. Ray told the Chicago ...

I would suspect that people are very proud that Chicago produced a pope, and it testifies to the fact that there’s a lot of good here in the city that recommends itself to the church.” ...

The hope that Pope Leo XIV has enkindled in Dolton is also enkindled for those who remember the shuttered church that formed ...

The current owner in Dolton, Illinois, hit the real estate jackpot when Pope Leo XIV was elected the leader of the Catholic ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago White Sox plan to unveil a graphic installation on Monday that honors Pope Leo XIV. Robert Prevost became the first pope from the U.S. in the history of the Catholic Church ...