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The Vatican is welcoming more than a thousand social media influencers to Rome this week for an event intended to shape a new ...
The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage of $49 on it and it was owned by the Prevost family for nearly 50 years.
Pope Francis was viewed as relatively progressive. His successor, the first American pope, is now in a unique position to ...
Oklahoma Roman Catholic leaders explore the commonalities between Pope Leo XIV and Blessed Stanley Rother, men who each ...
A new book suggests Chicago-born Robert Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...
From the very first moments of his papacy, when he addressed the crowd from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, it was clear that Pope Leo XIV would continue the path of openness set by his ...
What can a fifth-century text by St. Augustine tell us about the priorities of the two most powerful American Catholics?
Every time we perform an act of faith addressed to Jesus, we grow in our connection with Him, and His grace is bestowed ...
A Chicago family vacationing in Rome surprised the Vatican’s new pope with a Chicago Bears-themed gift Sunday. The Muñoz ...
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Online The Father, the Son and the Hollywood cousins. It turns out, the newly appointed Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost) has an astonishingly celebrity-ridden family tree.