An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

Pope Leo XIV will head to the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo for his summer vacation. After 12 years of papal absence, ...

Dolton residents were skeptical at Tuesday's board meeting, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford ...

For 400 years, most popes escaped the Roman summer in the hilltop town of Castel Gandolfo, Italy. Then Francis stopped going, ...

For the Pontiff, this is a sign of the power of God, 'which manifests itself in the midst of the rubble of destruction.' ...

Pope Leo XIV has spoken publicly about his childhood in Chicago for the first time as pontiff. Leo recalled Thursday that ...

The Pope’s house continues to draw in people, bringing new energy and attention to our village. This increased traffic ...

Norah Kettmann and Mary Clare Bean, graduates of Xavier High School’s Class of 2022, are now entering their senior year at ...

Occasionally they remember to call him by his new name, Pope Leo XIV, but it’s unfamiliar to their tongue. One of the guests ...

The latest sighting of Pope Leo XIV comes not from the Vatican but the New York Times’ The Most Stylish People of 2025, So ...

Ravaging the earth and creating environmental injustices are not what God had in mind when he entrusted creation to humanity, ...