Seniors at St. Rita High School on Chicago's Southwest Side were given a pretty straightforward assignment this week: choose a potential pope and give a presentation. Then came the curveball from the papal conclave.

Chicago native Robert Prevost has been elected pope, becoming the first U.S.-born pontiff in a historic move that defies centuries of Vatican tradition.

But he has the patience of a saint.” “Hey Chicago, He’s a Sox fan!” reads the White Sox scoreboard after Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, was chosen as the 267th pontiff on May 8 ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a pope from the states, but it has happened.

Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago becomes Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, stirring excitement among Catholics in North Carolina.

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed and marginalized.