That’s why she was encouraged last month when President Donald Trump signed an executive order that promises to restore ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday that lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation ...

For the second conclave in a row, the College of Cardinals shocked the watching world with its choice for the next pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was a long-shot favorite, precisely because he ...

Affiliate station WGN in Chicago spoke with the new pope’s brother, John Prevost, to discuss the issue of what baseball team the family supported.

Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass and details began to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make him history’s ...

U.S. District Judge William Sessions ordered Ozturk’s transfer to Vermont, where she was last confined before she was taken ...

The Vatican's veil of secrecy is beginning to lift, shedding light on how 133 cardinals from around he world unexpectedly ...

ROME – Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United ...

It was fitting that when Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Italian Open tennis tournament was being played just up the road from the Vatican. Because tennis is the sport that the first ...

The Diocese of Saginaw will transform its regular 5 p.m. mass into a celebration for Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Midwesterner ...

Initial suspicion understandably revolved around the fact that Prevost is more than likely a fan of the North Siders at Wrigley Field as Cubs fans were ready to claim him as one of their own. "He was ...

Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian priest. He is also a Chicago-area native and has many connections to St. Rita, an Augustinian high school on the city’s South Side.