Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s ...

In that moment, Pope Leo XIV wasn't a stranger from Chicago; he was our pastor, instantly embraced by the global Catholic ...

Here is the official record confirming that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost accepted the election canonically making him ...