"He’s the one who gave me permission to stay there" in 2000, James M. Ray, the former priest, told the Chicago Sun-Times ...

What is Pope Leo XIV's Wawa order? The Villanova alumnus shares his answer with an Augustinian priest from Delaware County.

Section 140, Row 19, Seat 2. At Rate Field in Chicago, that is the papal seat—the seat in which a priest by the name of ...

A résumé of deep religious education, frontline pastoral experience, parish management and Vatican governance — along with a ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV held his inaugural mass May 18 in Vatican City, making history as first American-born pope. His brother lives in ...

Pope Leo XIV persuaded the Arizona clergyman to return from his retirement as urgent appointments were being made earlier ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The regnal name that Cardinal Robert Prevost chose, Leo XIV, has beautiful and powerful resonance for anyone familiar with ...

ROME — As the universal Church celebrates the gift of the new Pope, there is one university in Rome where the joy is felt a little more deeply: Pope Leo XIV’s alma mater. The Pontifical University of ...

Photos of "a pope in muddy boots" began circulating on social media shortly after Cardinal Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Leo XIV. The story behind the images tells of a pastor in close kinship ...