Donald Trump post this AI produced image of himself in the vestments of the pope to his social media accounts — X, Instagram, Truth Social. The White House followed suit on its official account. There ...

The Catholic Church has entered a new historic era with the election of American-Peruvian Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Criminal justice reform has long been one of the most divisive issues between Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly and the Republican minority.

The Hyde Park school was founded in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which shaped its teachings and philosophy toward ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago and one of the 10 U.S. cardinal electors at the conclave that elected the ...

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting with cardinals since his May 8 election and offered a glimpse into his vision for the Church.

Robert Francis Prevost, a Villanova University graduate and a Chicago native, was chosen as the first American pope in ...

The former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, elected as the Catholic Church’s 267th Pope, is a tennis-loving, wordle-playing, ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...