Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is now known to be of African ancestry, part of a growing picture Americans are ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been named the ...

Once loyal Chicagoans got over the double shock of hearing that a local native, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, has been ...

The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark, politically, personally or ...

One Villanova professor attributed Leo’s election to what he called the “Trump effect,” while a conservative Catholic ...

In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit ...

The 73-year-old Florida man appears to be a staunch Trump supporter who uses his Facebook account to go on the attack.

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, ...

The pontiff broke the news to 'NBC Nightly News' anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one chat ...

Pope Leo XIV made history, but for his family, the announcement struck closer to home; Born in Chicago on Sept. 14, 1955, the ...

The new pope’s status as an American shocked me, and I immediately began to consider the politics and symbolism of the choice.

By Patrick Smith and Corky Siemaszko, NBC News Pope Leo XIV told NBC News' Lester Holt on Monday that Catholics who strayed from the church may return in part because it now has an American-born ...