The pope’s surprise Chicago roots are fueling hopes for economic revival in Dolton and the South Suburbs through tourism and new development.

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

Pope Leo XIV's family tree shows ties to a wealthy Creole family of color in Louisiana. NBC News' Maya Eaglin spoke with a genealogist who traced Pope Leo's lineage and explains how the pope's family ...

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned ...

After white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned his ...

Pope Leo XIV received world number one tennis player Jannik Sinner at the Vatican on Wednesday but they stopped short of ...

Louis hopes his brother will bring about a new wave of Catholicism to the church. He hopes U.S. citizens will be inspired by ...

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those Catholic communities with origins in the Middle East and North ...

The south suburban house was listed for sale last week, but the listing was pulled following the news of the home's famed ...

Robert Francis Prevost, now officially known as Pope Leo XIV, recently made history as the first American to ascend to the ...

The current resident of the Chicagoland pad, who pulled it off the market when he learned of its ties to the new religious ...

American Pope promises to have an ‘an active social media presence’ after using his old account to criticize Trump - Pope ...