A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

From an Authentic Memoir Furnished by His Order "is a papal biography based on a manuscript provided by Pope Leo XIII himself ...

Henry Louis Gates Jr., who hosts the PBS series “Finding Your Roots,” said he handed the pontiff a copy of his family tree.

Pope Leo XIV has named Bishop Daniel Garcia of Monterey, California, to be the next Roman Catholic bishop of Austin, promoting another vocal ally on immigration to a leadership position in Texas.

AUSTIN (KBTX) - Pope Leo XIV has selected native Texan Bishop Daniel Garcia to lead the Diocese of Austin. According to his biography, Bishop Garcia grew up in Waco and Cameron, Texas, and was ...

Someone asked me ... how I felt. I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell — Abraham Lincoln.

Pope Leo XIV prayed the Angelus on Sunday, July 13, from Castel Gandolfo, where he is taking a two-week summer break.

Places where Robert Francis Prevost may have spent childhood in, around Dolton is mostly now photographs and memories.

Pope Leo XIV received a copy of his family tree from Henry Louis Gates Jr., marking his first public acknowledgment of his Black ancestry.

Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark status for both the home and the abandoned St. Mary’s of ...