Pope Leo XIV has offered to host a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine at the Vatican, while Cardinal Pietro Parolin called the failure of the two sides to reach a truce in Istanbul "tragic".

The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home in Dolton has put it up for auction in June, with a minimum asking price of $250,000.. Homer Glen-based home rehabber Pawel Radzik paid $66,000 last year ...

Vatican City, May 15, 2025 / 16:03 pm. The pontificate of Pope Leo XIV can bring new impetus to the Church’s evangelical mission in the world today, theologian and philosopher George Weigel said ...

A once-abandoned church on a Far South Side corner has gotten the world's attention with news that Pope Leo XIV spent his formative years there.

Pope Leo XIV relaunched the official papal X account and quickly embarked on an impassioned tweet spree that saw him rail against war and plead for world peace. The American pope posted for the ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first social media post on Tuesday in which he sent a message of peace, as he seeks to maintain an active social media presence.

Given Leo’s broad new temporal powers as pope, there would appear to be no reason he couldn’t maintain his other citizenships if he wanted to — there’s even precedent for this, as in 2014 ...

Pope Leo XIV gestures during an audience to representatives of the media, at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican, on May 12, 2025. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP)(AFP) ...

Pope Leo XIV's brother describes ‘life-altering event' impacting family John Prevost returned to the U.S. in recent days after a whirlwind trip to Rome to visit his brother.

COMMENTARY: In his first days as Pope, Leo XIV has signaled continuity over rupture, rooted his vision in patristic tradition, and issued a bold call to young people: ‘Do not be afraid.’ ...

Pope Leo XIV is still an American citizen for now and that means he has to pay taxes Pope Leo XIV is a dual citizen of the United States and Peru, where he worked for more than 20 years as first a ...

He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first American pope and is seen as a diplomat in the church. On Sunday, the new pope called for ...