Paula Hambrick never imagined that in her lifetime the Catholic Church would be led by a pope from the United States, never ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, spoke with ABC7 Friday to reflect on his first papal conclave and the ...

We’re learning a lot more about the new pope from those who know him well: family, friends and fellow missionaries.

Three cardinals agreed that, despite conventional wisdom that dismissed the possibility of a US pope, Leo's US citizenship ...

While at Villanova, Prevost was an active member of the university’s long-standing pro-life club “Villanovans for Life,” the ...

For the first time in history, an American from Chicago has been selected as the new pope of the Catholic Church, and some ...

Celebrations for the first Chicago-born pope continued Friday as many, many Chicagoans sharing their memories of a priest they never knew would one day become the Holy Father.

For cardinals who came from such different parts of the world, it was a feat but also an act of unity to elect someone in less than 24 hours, Cardinal Wilton Gregory told the press. "I think we did ...

The cardinals that gathered -- Daniel DiNardo, Timothy Dolan, Joseph Tobin, Blase Cupich, Wilton Gregory, Robert McElroy and Christophe Pierre -- agreed that all members of the clergy worked ...