The Rev. Andy Matijevic has some impressive bragging rights. “I told the future pope what to do,” Matijevic quipped. It was ...

Discover how Pope Leo XIV, the new pope, is redefining the concept of 'woke' and staying true to Catholic social justice roots.

America has great economic culture, political power and military power, and [for an American] to be heading the Church too, ...

In an interview with Louisiana Considered, Jari Honora, a family historian at the Historic New Orleans Collection, shares ...

The elevation of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to pope earlier this month has been a point of pride for Chicagoland ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or ...

The genealogical findings underline the significance of Pope Leo XIV being not only the first pope from the United States, but also being the first with documented ancestral ties to Louisiana’s ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or ...

To the shock of many, the new Pope is not only the first Pope from the United States, but the Pope has Haitian and Creole ancestry as well. Those facts are just some of what we learned as we try to ...

CHICAGO -- Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- 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.