Pope Francis died in April, shortly before McGovern left Belleville to be installed as archbishop on May 7. The next day, a Vatican conclave elected Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, former ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV. A Chicago native, Prevost is the first American to head the Roman Catholic Church. Prevost was elected by Catholic ...

As I considered the latest contretemps involving the prefect of the Dicastery of for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, a song from the film came to mind.

On Jan. 23, hundreds of couples in Bangkok tied the knot in a mass wedding ceremony after a 2024 bill recognizing same-sex ...

Leo XIV has governed through pastoral warmth, quiet competence and careful incrementalism. Whether that approach heals the ...

President Trump welcomed the new pope — though Pope Leo XIV hasn’t always welcomed him. As recently as three weeks ago, Pope Leo XIV — formerly known as Chicago's Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — ...

Weeks after the election of the first U.S.-born pope, the board had moved to acquire the 75-year-old home where the former Robert Prevost and his family lived until 1969. The site immediately became a ...

Pope Leo revealed on Tuesday that at the moment of his election as leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church, he ...

During his first international trip to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV stepped onto the international stage and into the ...

Thunderous applause echoed inside the frescoed Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City after Pope Leo XIV concluded his speech on the state of cinema today and its capacity to "set ...

Catholics celebrate the birth of the Virgin Mary, with the caption “Happy birthday, Mary!” I wish I could say Guadalupe is ...

Los Angeles — The “Purge” movies are missing from the list, as are the entries in the “Saw” franchise. There are no “Evil Dead” titles. “The Exorcist” is suspiciously absent. The list, in this case, ...