Let the new pope, Leo XIV, consider elevating Catholic women to become deacons, Jeannie Barry said in the lobby of St. Mary’s ...

Chicago residents were ecstatic about the first North American pope, Pope Leo XIV, who was elected to the papacy on Thursday.

In his first encounter with journalists as pope, Leo called on the news media to highlight the “voices of the weak who have no voice.” ...

It’s time once again to dive in to another round of quick takes on the people, places and events that were being talked about ...

On Thursday afternoon, white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City as Catholics and non-Catholics alike around the world watched with great interest to see who would be chosen as the ...

Political partisanship is likely to become an even more untenable position for American Catholics than it already is.

Tim Elko collected his first MLB hit — a go-ahead three-run home run — to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-2 win over the ...

Get to know Eddie Schmit, the young White Sox fan who sat next to Pope Leo XIV at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series.

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...