When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

As the leader of Vatican City, he is the head of a sovereign nation. But maintaining dual citizenship as a foreign head of ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — grew up in Chicago, ...

Pope Leo has confirmed all top Vatican officials in their current roles on a temporary basis, giving him time to decide ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

Many – including me – admired Francis’ strengths of humility, openness, emphasis on a pastoral church for the weak and the ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn.

In that moment, Pope Leo XIV wasn't a stranger from Chicago; he was our pastor, instantly embraced by the global Catholic ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

ROME — The new Chicago-raised Pope Leo XIV faces an immediate challenge in his native country: taming the brawling U.S. tribe ...

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s ...

A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...