It will be a long time before the shock and surprise that swept across St. Peter’s Square and the ... Mary of the Assumption parish in Dolton, on the south side of Chicago, where his mother ...

CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican ... elected to lead the Catholic Church. Known as the Angelus blessing ...

Thousands cheered in St. Peter ... balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, beginning his first address in Italian with “Peace be with you all.” “We can be a missionary church — a church ...

The former Cardinal Robert Prevost vowed to work for unity. “I think he will inspire,” said Susan Hanssen, a professor who was born in Chicago and just arrived in Rome to teach.

CHICAGO – Rome, the ancient city and historic home of the Catholic Church, felt close to the ... his own first Sunday address in St. Peter's Square, warning of a “piecemeal” third world ...

He is a man formed by his experience in the church of Chicago, especially the south side,’ writes Mark Francis, CSV.

COMMENTARY: Not since 1808 when Bishop John Carroll was the bishop of Baltimore — then the only diocese in the United States ...

DETROW: In the conclave's second day, the College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, as the church's ... the crowd at St. Peter's Square when it ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia at St. Peter’s ... old Chicago-born missionary made history as the first American elected to lead the Catholic Church.