The new Chicago-born pope did not shy from world events in his public address following a prayer to the Virgin Mary, as he cited the recent 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, a conflict ...

Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the ...

The world has a new pope—and contrary to what many expected, he is American. Following his election, a quote by the late ...

News that the global Catholic church would get its first-ever U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholics across the ideological ...