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 ...

Many sites associated with past popes have become museums or holy destinations for the faithful. But Pope Leo XIV’s childhood ...

An abandoned church owned by Joe Hall in Chicago as part of a community programs project just got a fresh sense of significance on Thursday (May 8) when he realized this is where the newly elected ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

How the new Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church in Chicago fell into disrepair — and what may lie ahead People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday mused about ...

Pope Leo XIV attended the church and parish school while growing up in nearby Dolton. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday ...

CHICAGO — Above the door of the church in the last blocks of Chicago ... People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on May 8 mused about what the future might hold ...

Above the door of the church in the last blocks of Chicago, the Virgin Mary still ... People who gathered outside the abandoned St. Mary of the Assumption on Thursday mused about what the future ...