ABC7's Liz went out to find Chicagoans visiting St. Peter's Square and some of Pope Leo's favorite local shops.

World Press Freedom Day (May 3) came and went. Weren’t we all so preoccupied with one thing or another so significant that ...

The first documented sighting of a Filipino by a pope was at the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome on ...

Even as Pope Leo XIV's profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will ...

Eire suggested that one of the reasons Pope Leo was chosen is that he is not a “full-blown American.” Despite being born in ...

Nevertheless, the women who have worked closely with Prevost in recent years have praised his leadership style, ability to ...

Vance will travel this weekend to Vatican City where he will attend the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV, history’s first ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, visited Sister Mary Bosco of the Sisters of Mercy, a 100-year-old Irish nun ...

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio will attend Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass in Vatican City on ...

Pope Leo’s hometown Dolton was hit with economic hardship following the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now known as Pope Leo, was born to Louis Marius Prevost and Mildred Martínez in September 1955. He was raised in Chicago alongside brothers Louis Martin Prevost and John ...