Leo met in St. Peter’s Basilica with about 400 bishops and cardinals from 38 countries attending this week’s special Holy ...

WILLIAMSBURG—Blaine Liner passed away on June 11, 2025, in Williamsburg. He was preceded in death by his parents, Scott Dewey ...

Pope Leo XIV affirmed that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers.

Who is Pope Leo XIV? The Chicago-born baseball lover who made history as first US pope. From an altar boy growing up in a working class area of Chicago, Robert Prevost, 69, has worked his way ...

The 69-year-old cardinal was born in Chicago and spent many years in Peru, where he is remembered as the saintly missionary who, in order to bring help to those in need, waded his way through mud ...

Robert 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.

Chicago Roots. It will be a long time before the shock and surprise that swept across St. Peter’s Square and the wider world on May 8 when Pope Leo appeared on the balcony wears off.

Opinion Brónagh Diamond: Chicago’s greatest export meets Peru’s most humble servant Forget your traditional Italian popes sipping espresso; we’re talking deep-dish spirituality, tamales ...

From Chicago to Peru. The Rev. William Lego met Leo as kids when Augustinian representatives went to grammar schools to invite young men to consider becoming priests. ...

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Peruvians in Chicago are celebrating the election of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicagoan who spent two decades of service in Peru, as the elevation of one of their own.