Since Robert Prevost is a Chicago native, baseball fans were eager to learn which baseball team the new pontiff supports.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from ...

Pope Leo XIII, who served from 1878 to 1903, led the church into the modern world, emphasizing its moral authority beyond ...

For decades, long-suffering Chicago White Sox fans grumbled that it would take divine intervention for their baseball team to ...

A look back through the newly-elected pope's social media timeline shows numerous posts sharing viewpoints opposed to moves ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

For Catholic theologians, the significance of the name could not be more clear, with the new pope tying himself to one of the ...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis is in Vatican City where Pope Leo XIV has become the first American pontiff in the Catholic Church’s ...

Pope Leo XIV's first Latin Mass with the College of Cardinals will start on Friday, May 9, 2025 at 11:00 local time (2 p.m.

Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born cardinal selected Thursday as the next pope, is partially descended from Creole ...

Pope Leo XIV may be the first American pope, but he spent many years of his life in Peru. NBC News' George Solis takes a look ...

On Thursday afternoon -- running with a claim by an ABC News reporter -- the Chicago Cubs boasted that Pope Leo XIV was a fan ...