While in Rome for the tournament May 14, the world’s highest-ranked tennis player walked into the halls of the Vatican and ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Francis Prevost, is Black. He is a descendant of Creoles in New Orleans, including ...

Cardinal Michael Czerny said that when Cardinal Robert F. Prevost was elected pope and chose the name Leo XIV, ...

The new pontiff spoke to NBC News anchor Lester Holt, who was part of a news conference for some 6,000 journalists from ...

Pope Leo XIV had deleted his old, personal social media accounts, which featured posts that criticized the Trump ...

The newly elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, is from Chicago -- and one Windy City-based restaurant chain is ...

Pope Leo XIV was gifted a tennis racket by world number one player Jannick Sinner on Wednesday. Sinner offered to volley with ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV has taken over the Vatican's official social media handles, with a first Instagram post on ...