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Some Catholics in Chicago still hope the new pope will signal greater acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community — with time.
Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, said he expects Pope Leo XIV "feels an obligation," to speak to what he called ...
In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to ...
Italians — and Romans in particular — have had mixed responses to the so-called “American pope.” Most are cautiously ...
Those who knew Pope Leo XIV as a younger man say his path to the papacy has prepared him well for the challenges ahead.
Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, ...
Pope Leo’s hometown Dolton was hit with economic hardship following the collapse of the steel industry on the Far South Side.
The contrast between President Donald Trump and Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV couldn’t be more stark — politically, personally or ...