“Pope Francis said that we as a church were not in an era of change, but a change of an era. And so I think we're going to see that continue no matter who were to be at the helm of the Catholic ...

ST. LOUIS — Nearly 70 years before becoming pope, Robert Francis Prevost called the Midwest home. Prevost, who on Thursday became Pope Leo XIV, was born in 1955 in Chicago and is a White Sox fan ...

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The reality didn’t dawn on Louis until Robert was named cardinal in 2023 by the late Pope Francis. “It’s like, yeah, OK, right,” he said.

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India and Pakistan abruptly declared a cease-fire on Saturday after four days of rapidly escalating drone volleys, shelling and airstrikes that appeared to bring the old enemies to the brink of ...

Pope Francis, who hailed from Argentina, never returned to his place of birth after becoming the church’s leader. American cardinals said at a news conference on Friday that Pope Leo’s ...

President Donald Trump met Louis Prevost, the oldest brother of Pope Leo XIV, at the White House on Tuesday, according to the president’s special assistant, Margo Martin. While speaking to ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago. Louis Prevost described his brother as a man who was teased as a child that he would be pope one day. and now "here we are." ...

Where Things Stand Russia-Ukraine: President Trump backed away from threats intended to press Russia for a cease-fire in Ukraine and endorsed Russia’s position that the warring nations should ...

Mr. Trump also met with Mr. Zelensky in private at the Vatican before the funeral of Pope Francis on April 26 and later spoke warmly of the Ukrainian leader.

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago is readying itself to celebrate the election of one of its own as leader of the Catholic Church. Formerly known as Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago native ...