First American pontiff Robert Prevost takes Catholic Church helm amid increasing global turmoil - The 69-year-old former ...

Local Catholic faith leaders greeted with enthusiasm the election of the first pope from the United States — and from ...

Robert Prevost, elected pope Thursday, grew up in Dolton. Former neighbors and local Catholics reacted to the election of the ...

St. Bridget Catholic School in Richmond posted a photo on Instagram showing students celebrating the news: "Can you feel the ...

"I think for us today, the main thing is we're just very joyful to have a new pope," said the Rev. Leo Kosch, pastor at St.

The programs corresponded, at least in part, to a 15% reduction in the amount of bad debt Illinois hospitals incurred each ...

"We were all on pins and needs when we saw the white smoke," said Fr. Michael Berndt, director of campus ministry and ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision was announced that a native son, Cardinal Robert Prevost, had been elected ...

It just really felt magical,” the Rev. Joseph Wahlmeier, a Lincoln priest who was in St. Peter's Square to witness ...