Pope Leo shared his American pride while walking through Vatican City wearing a Chicago White Sox baseball cap.

According to Gates Jr., Pope Leo is also related to Boucher de Grandpre, who fought against the British during the ...

NEW: The first U.S. bishop appointed by Pope Leo XIV—a refugee himself—is mobilizing priests to accompany migrants at ...

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

Chicago will honor its hometown pope, Leo XIV, with a public celebration on Saturday at Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

Tadahito Iguchi. Esteban Loaiza. Liam Hendriks. These are all Chicago White Sox of yore that the literal Pope has definitely ...

Through a distant maternal ancestor, who was born in the 1590s, Pope Leo is ninth cousins, various times removed, with some ...

Noblemen, enslaved people, freedom fighters, slaveowners: what the complex family tree of the first American pontiff reveals.

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the ...

By then, Considine had become head of the U.S. bishops’ Latin America Bureau. He worked with the onetime Catholic priest and ...

Agostino Giovagnoli, a professor of Church history at Milan’s Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, described the more ...