The claim was rooted in a real event — in June 2025, San Diego priests attended immigration court to support migrants on ...

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

Oklahoma Roman Catholic leaders explore the commonalities between Pope Leo XIV and Blessed Stanley Rother, men who each ...

Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...

From the very first moments of his papacy, when he addressed the crowd from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, it was clear that Pope Leo XIV would continue the path of openness set by his ...

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

A new book says Chicago-born Robert Prevost might have initially been reluctant to take on the enormous responsibility.

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America’s first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover […] ...

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark ...

The PayPal account belongs to the same Robert Prevost known to the world since last month as Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S.-born pontiff, Frerichs' office confirmed in response to an inquiry from ...

Online The Father, the Son and the Hollywood cousins. It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree.

Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955. He got his last name from his father, Louis Lanti Marius Prevost (1920-1997), who got it from his mother’s mother’s maiden name.