ROME (AP) — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection, the Vatican ...

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Pope Leo XIV donned a White Sox hat at the Vatican this week. For the company that makes it, it was a dream come true.

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday will bless and bestow the “pallium” — a white woolen vestment symbolizing pastoral authority and unity with the pope — on 48 new metropolitan archbishops, including ...

Rate Field hosted a special mass and celebration in honor of Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV, the first American-born pope and a confirmed White Sox fan.

Cyd Smillie had the design and started adding Pope Leo XIV to the mural before he donned a White Sox cap at the Vatican earlier this week.

Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager, was meant to be made a saint in April, but the ceremony was postponed because of Pope Francis’ death.

Cousins from both the branches of Pope Leo XIV's extended family, the side that passed for white and the side that remained Black, are eager to reconnect.

Pope Leo XIV is a man of the cloth, and some of the ancestral threads woven to make the world’s first U.S. and Chicago pope are stained in blood, scandal — and even glitter with celebrity. The ...

Al Pacino met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Monday, becoming the first movie star to have an audience with the new pontiff.

Pope Leo XIV on Friday set Sept. 7 as the rescheduled date to canonize the Catholic Church’s first millennial-era saint Carlo Acutis.

For Pope Leo XIV, this friendship with Christ “is the spiritual foundation of the ordained ministry, the meaning of our celibacy, and the energy of the ecclesial service to which we dedicate our ...