The morning after John Prevost watched his younger brother Robert become Pope Leo XIV, he received a familiar phone call.

Scrutiny about the way the latest pope might run the Catholic Church started the moment he stepped on to the balcony.

It was fitting that when Pope Leo XIV was elected, the Italian Open tennis tournament was being played just up the road from ...

The family, now in Mexico, is garnering support from some members of Congress as they prepare to apply for humanitarian ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent.

They elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost to succeed Pope Francis to become the 267th person to lead the church. He will ...

Much remains to be known about Pope Leo, who is seen as a centrist. The Illinois native has dual citizenship from the U.S.

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

A growing number of cases — including a 2-year-old kept in U.S. custody after her mother was deported to Venezuela – ...

April 9. Mario Vargas Llosa, 89. The Peruvian author was a Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters.

The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter ...

Dillon Law, new site superintendent at Illini State Park, stands beside a sign marking the park's ongoing woodland restoration project, which looks to remove invasive species and promote native ...