Pope Leo shared his American pride while walking through Vatican City wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap.

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

He used to say, ‘There are queues in front of a concert, in front of a football match, but I don’t see these queues in front ...

We live in a global society. The more international allies that America has, the more secure it is, and the safer the world ...

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