Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Friday his country wanted to develop relations with Russia, and he derided European ...

Pope Leo XIV is fast becoming an icon in Chicago, bringing hope that he will shine light on working class heroes everywhere.

Genealogists have discovered that Pope Leo XIV's maternal grandparents were of Haitian descent, making him the first Haitian ...

Long live the Pope! Long live the Pope!” chanted sixth graders from Everest Academy, a Catholic school in Lemont, Ill., in ...

The likelihood that the newly elected pope has consumed a Chicago style hot dog is not zero. And that means something.

CHICAGO − Over 100 years passed between ... is united in prayer for the pope and gratefully celebrates that a pastor who loved Peru now guides the universal church.” He was the bishop of ...

The first American Pope was born and raised in the Chicago area, and Catholics there are elated with the election of Pope Leo XIV.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first ...

CHICAGO — The old parish church buildings on Chicago’s far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, in remarks posted on social media, was more plain-spoken in his exuberance, declaring: "Everything dope, including the Pope, comes from Chicago!" The pope-to-be, by ...