A couple dozen people walked through the open doors of the long-closed St. Mary of the Assumption parish Friday to see where ...

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

B rompton Oratory is a peculiar place to find people in their 20s. This grand old church in west London smells of old things ...

On the final day of April, the LaReine Avenue church was opened up to the public for the final time for an auction of its ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...

Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to "desperately" counter a lack of faith in his first homily as pope Friday, a day after ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, became the first American pope in 2025. He began his religious life at St. Mary ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

Pope Leo XIV's mother, Mildred Martínez, has Spanish roots, per Vatican News. She was born in Chicago in 1912, according to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead ...

The late Pope Francis opened the way for women in the Roman Catholic Church to serve as readers and altar servers, and to ...

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, his brother ...