Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Thursday as the first ever American pope – and folks in the Windy City are ...

Yes, even the new leader of millions of faithful Catholics around the world once used an iconic Massachusetts candy to play ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago has just been elected Pope Leo XIV, and while the world watched him, the internet was ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

“DA POPE!” blared the front of the Chicago Sun-Times on Friday, one of countless spins on the city’s unique accent, ...

Louis Prevost is still reckoning with what just happened in his family. His little brother, Robert Francis Prevost, is now ...

Names of frontrunners — to be taken with communion-wafer-sized grains of salt — have surfaced. One is Maltese Cardinal Mario Grech, who presided over the so-called synods, consultative bodies intended ...

Deacon Juan Pérez Gómez, left, takes part in a blessing ceremony after picking up Communion wafers that he will take to a priest to be consecrated before he can give them out in his next day ...

‘No longer objects’ On the Saturday after Francis' death, Pérez Gómez stopped by a church in the town near his village to pick up the Communion wafers he would give out during his service ...

Christian priest lifting sacramental bread selective focus view over shoulder. Catholic clergyman holding communion wafer in hands during Eucharist celebration ceremony Wine being Poured into cup with ...