The Rev. Richard J. McGrath was a longtime leader of Providence Catholic High School, run by the Augustinians, whose Midwest ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Taking the name Leo XIV, the American was elected to be the 267th pontiff and spiritual leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen as the 267th Pope elected by 133 cardinals locked inside the Sistine ...

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

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead ...

Here comes ‘Da Pope.’ Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in ...

St. Mary of the Assumption Parish included this photo commemorating the 1982 meeting of a newly ordained Robert Prevost and Pope John Paul II in its 1986 book marking its 100th anniversary. Prevost ...

The BriefCardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago elected pope Thursday, taking the name Pope Leo XIVHe is the first American-born ...

As the new pope's name was announced, it stunned many around the globe: Robert Prevost, a cardinal from Chicago and the first ...

The newly elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, is from Chicago -- and one Windy City-based restaurant chain is ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost has spent much of his time serving in Peru. He was elected the first American pope from ...