Hundreds of thousands of people gathered for Pope Francis' funeral on Saturday in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. Francis died on April 21 at the age of 88 after 12 years at the head of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the successor to Pope Francis, was born about three miles south of Chicago ... “Now we’re known for Michael Jordan, Al Capone and the pope. The Chicago holy trinity. We’ll let the public ...

Read about the most infamous inmates below: Al Capone spent time at several prisons across America before serving a sentence at Alcatraz. Capone was charged with tax evasion in 1931, and while ...

By McKinley Franklin Francis Ford Coppola is sharing his opinions on Donald Trump’s proposed movie tariffs. “All it does is create uncertainty. People don’t understand that the economy in ...

The world of sport is “a constellation of many stars,” Pope Francis told La Gazzetta dello Sport, the Italian daily sports newspaper, during a wide-ranging interview in January 2021.

The late Pope Francis donated all his remaining money to a youth rehabilitation project inside a Roman prison in one of his final acts as the head of the Roman Catholic Church. Before his death ...

Leo XIV reportedly brings more reserved approach as Pope Francis' successor. Cardinal Robert Prevost was chosen as Pope Francis' successor on Thursday, taking the papal name Leo XIV. The world is ...

The two clerics met in South America, and when Francis needed to fill an important job at the Vatican, he knew where to turn. By Emma Bubola Reporting from Vatican City A few years ago ...

Is Pope Leo XIV the first “pope of the periphery”? During his pontificate Francis created 163 cardinals from 76 countries; 25 of those nations had never been represented before in the College ...

American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago in 1955, was elected pope this Thursday, on the second day of the conclave convened in Vatican City following the death of Pope Francis.

Natalia Imperatori-Lee, the religious studies chair at Manhattan University, told The Associated Press that the name choice signifies that Leo XIV, much like the late Pope Francis before him ...

A huge crowd in St. Peter’s Square awaited the announcement of the pope’s identity Thursday, and they were rewarded to see the face of American Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost emerge.