An abandoned church owned by Joe Hall in Chicago as part of a community programs project just got a fresh sense of significance on Thursday (May 8) when he realized this is where the newly elected ...

Here's what we know. Who is Cardinal Robert Prevost? Prevost, 69, was born and studied in Chicago, receiving a degree in Theology at the Catholic Theological Union of Chicago. The polyglot served ...

three days after the 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary made history as the first American elected to lead the Catholic Church. Known as the Angelus blessing, Pope Leo — the former Robert ...

The challenges for Catholics where Prevost grew up are a microcosm of the gargantuan problems facing the Catholic Church. As with the problems facing Catholics in Chicago, the new Pope Leo XIV ...

Now, along with having molded a two-term American president in Barack Obama, Chicago will further be known internationally as the city that nurtured a head of the Catholic Church. What a great day ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, until now. Cardinal Robert Prevost is originally from Chicago, and served as the head of the church's Dicastery ...

Roxanne Green approaches the front doors of the former St. Mary of the Assumption Church at the corner of South Leyden Avenue and East 137th Street on Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Chicago.

the grant — if approved by City Council — would cover a virtual rebuild of the 143-year-old church’s tower, reusing as much of the building’s distinctive original green Serpentine stone.

After a two-year hiatus, the Chicago Bears-Green Bay Packers rivalry may be returning to prime time — and the Bears also will be playing on Black Friday. Fox Sports announced Monday that the ...

Read coverage of our homegrown head of the church below. Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Leo spent his childhood in Chicago’s South Side, where his family was beloved. He later spent two decades carrying out missionary work in Peru ...