Hello everyone, I’m Dan Lucy on your Ozarks First digital desk. Thursday was a big day for myself and Catholics around the ...

After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV and the first pontiff from the United States, an image spread across social ...

Pope Leo XIV's older brother, Louis Prevost, has been living in Florida for about four years and couldn't be more proud of his sibling's elevation to the papacy.

Pope Leo XIV and his family have a long history on Chicago's South Side. Long before Robert Prevost was elected by his fellow Cardinals, he was a friend to a South Side family. Among the many things ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make him history’s ...

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Chants of "Viva el Papa" rang out in Thursday night's Thanksgiving Mass. "A new era has dawned. God is with us," the ...

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his predecessor.

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

However, it would be a mistake to let Leo XIV be defined by his critics alone. He reminds us that no human is infallible, not ...