When news broke Thursday about Robert Prevost's election as the first American pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, the mood throughout Chicago was joyous.

As Catholics, our arms will be wide open to the world. We will accompany the world. We will live in the world.

The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama shared their reaction to "fellow Chicagoan" Robert Francis Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV, the ...

Barack Obama and Michelle Obama shared their reaction to "fellow Chicagoan" Robert Francis Prevost becoming Pope Leo XIV, the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, along with scores of other elected officials throughout the ...

Leaders of all faiths and on both sides of the aisle welcomed the South Side's own Robert Prevost — Pope Leo XIV — as head of ...

Even former president Barack Obama congratulated the new pope as a “fellow Chicagoan.” He wrote: “This is a historic day for ...

Americans are cheering for the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost.

Former President Obama congratulated Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native, on his selection as the next pontiff for the Roman ...

The former president stepped up his public re-emergence by attacking President Trump’s handling of foreign policy and ...

President Trump recently tried to criticize the Obama Presidential Center, but the Obama Foundation wasn’t having it.