The memes, image edits and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago's pizza and more loaded than its hot dog.

The new pope's French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had deep roots in the Big Easy.

The pope also has a more direct role on everyday Americans, in the sense that he is the head of a church followed by 20 ...

Pope Leo XIV will make a “darn good pope,” New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has said, as the first American-born pontiff led ...

In the verdant suburb of Philadelphia, locals, professors and students revelled as Cardinal Prevost was elected Pope Leo XIV ...

Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days ...

Uche, the founder of Reign House Chapel International, has sparked a social media storm with his claim that the newly elected ...

Standing beneath Michelangelo’s towering fresco of the Last Judgement, newly elected Pope Leo XIV delivered his first papal ...

This intersection of faith and fandom is the kind of bit that only baseball can provide. The new pope is a White Sox fan — ...

Pope Leo XIV's successor as bishop of Chiclayo in northern Peru rejected allegations that the new pontiff ever covered up ...

Three Seminarians from the Diocese of Grand Rapids are currently studying in Rome. They had a front seat bearing witness to history watching the introduction of Pope Leo.