ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV spoke publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff Thursday, recalling that from the age of six he used to get up early to serve as an altar boy at ...

Pope Leo XIV visited the Vatican Observatory. He commemorated the 1969 moon landing. He observed the Sea of Tranquility. The ...

The claim was rooted in a real event — in June 2025, San Diego priests attended immigration court to support migrants on ...

A spokesperson for the Village of Dolton, Illinois, said the community is working to have the house named a historical site, ...

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives in St. Peter’s Square to hold his weekly general audience at the Vatican on June 25, 2025. AP. Dolton village leaders praised the purchase of the Pope’s home as a “once ...

The board of a Chicago suburb where Pope Leo XIV grew up has voted “yes” to purchasing his childhood home—just days before the property was due to be sold off at auction to the highest bidder.

A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted unanimously on Tuesday to take control of the property. Since the pope’s ...

Pope Leo, who was elected in May to the surprise of close conclave watchers, is the first to hail from the United States in the history of the church. A Chicago native, he attended Villanova ...