Millions of people around the world were stunned when Pope Leo XIV was elected earlier this year, but one Vatican correspondent wasn't.

The first authoritative account of the conclave that elected history’s first pontiff from the United States — written by an American journalist who knew him before he became pope. Despite ...

From an Authentic Memoir Furnished by His Order "is a papal biography based on a manuscript provided by Pope Leo XIII himself ...

Newly elected Dolton Mayor Jason House said on July 10 that a steering committee would be formed in order to plan how to ...

Leo will disappear further this weekend when he begins a six-week vacation in his first break since his historic election May ...

VATICAN CITY -- In his very first sermon as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV told the cardinals who elected him that anyone who ...

The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to acquire his childhood home. Board members in suburban Dolton outside Chicago voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase the property in hopes it will breathe new life ...

ROME — Pope Leo XIV on Sunday heads to the papal summer residence for a six-week vacation , giving the hilltop town of Castel ...

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

I have, after 80 years, felt something that I never thought I would in this century as a Roman Catholic. I feel optimistic. I ...