Now that the world's most famous Catholic is an American from Chicago, some hope Pope Leo XIV will help bring new energy to a church that's been on the steady decline there. Now that the world's ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Cook County Clerk's office has some 80,000 boxes of records stored in warehouses. However, records pertaining to Pope Leo XIV's paternal grandfather were right in their office.

Pope Leo XIV smiles to the audience as he arrives in the Popemobile ahead of the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square on May 18, 2025. Getty Images New Pope Leo XIV used one of ...

and there are promising signs that Pope Leo XIV just may be the voice of clarity that we need. I am a lifelong Catholic, with a family history in the Church going back through generations to Italy ...

The election of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to the papacy this month has been a cause for celebration for Catholic Americans and South Siders in particular, where a young Pope Leo XIV was ...

Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has a patchwork background that speaks to the melting pot that is the United States — and his birthplace, the city of Chicago. Though he worked in Peru for 20 years ...

Pope Leo XIV earned his doctorate in canon law from Rome’s Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, where his thesis on the leadership of the Augustinian order may give insight into how the ...

As the first Catholic pope ... Genealogy Researchers, discovered troves of documents in his collection and gathered records from his network of genealogists that confirmed information about Pope ...

According to leading genealogists, Pope Leo’s family history reveals a deep and complex African American lineage, with roots stretching back to New Orleans and Haiti. "I looked into some of the ...

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin revealed Monday she now "loves" Pope Leo XIV after discovering his "Black" background. Hostin had previously expressed concerns about the new pontiff on Friday ...

Pope Leo XIV addressed the College of Cardinals on Saturday. He said artificial intelligence posed "new challenges." Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV on May 8. The growing prevalence of artificial ...

It should come as no surprise this week that this newsletter’s attention once again turns back to Rome, with the election of Pope Leo XIV—the ... of Augustine’s insight into human experience ...