I am a Peruvian who embraced America, and the pope is an American who embraced Peru.

Chicago’s South Side was solidly working class during Pope Leo’s childhood, said Rob Paral, a researcher at the Great Cities ...

Pope Leo was spotted at the 2005 World Series, a rare moment of triumph for the pride of Chicago’s South Side.

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Pope Leo, 69, was elected on Thursday to become the 267th Pope and the first American leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

In his advocacy of the poor, migrants and a more open church, many people see the new pope as a continuation of his ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Pope Leo XIV voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in three Republican primaries in the years that followed, ...

That the new pontiff’s ancestry can be partially traced to a historic enclave of Afro-Caribbean culture in New Orleans has ...

An interview with a brother of Pope Leo XIV conducted by a journalist for The Associated Press was interrupted when the new ...