He’s been playing football nearly his entire life, but a green uniform has never seen the light of day. Come August, that will change for Lynn’s Edwin Castro, a defensive back from St. John’s Prep who ...

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Char Burnette grew up on the south side of Chicago, a classmate in Catholic school of a man the world now knows.

Yet the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel chose Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago native, as the 267th pope of the ...

Before ascending to lead the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV — formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost — grew up in Chicago, ...

The new pope, who was born Robert Francis Prevost, hails from the Chicago area, where he grew up in a southern suburb just ...

The preliminary agreement is the first of dozens of tariff-lowering deals that Trump is trying to land in coming weeks after ...

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south side suburbs, where he grew up playing “pretend priest” and ...

Every pope brings a distinct vision and agenda for leading the church. Making change is difficult in the Catholic Church, but ...

The 69-year-old will become Leo XIV as he succeeds the late Pope Francis, who brought the Peruvian-American to the Vatican ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...