When Rosemary Siemens picks up her glittering violin case, she carries more than just an instrument — she carries a legacy ...

Leo’s mother, Mildred Martinez, was the couple’s only child to be born in Chicago; her siblings were all born in New Orleans. One of the pope’s cousins, Joan Plum, confirmed that the ...

The Chicago-born pontiff is the first American to lead the Catholic Church, and while his positions on some of the church’s hot-button issues remain unclear, he has signaled continuity with his ...

Joan Francis Plum, a cousin of Leo’s, said in an interview Thursday that the new pope would “be like Francis.” “I think that’s why Francis called him to the Vatican — because they were ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope ...

Typically, Pope's select the names of predecessors they admire or want to emulate. Prevost ultimately went with Leo XIV in honor of Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903. "He could have been ...

Pope Leo XIV's brother John said the new pontiff will be "following in Francis' footsteps" Jordana Comiter is an Associate Editor on the Evergreen team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Francis Prevost, was selected Thursday by the cardinal electors of the Catholic Church, becoming the first pontiff to hail from the U.S. Pope Leo gave his first ...

The election of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV to lead the Roman Catholic Church raised an immediate question: What does this signal to the U.S. and President Trump? On Truth Social, the president ...

Geoff Bennett discussed what shaped Pope Leo’s views and who he is with Rev. Robert Hagan. Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first mass less than 24 hours after being elected the leader of the ...

After Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected pope, genealogists got to work. What they found surprised them.