When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village's board of trustees voted to buy it, in the hopes of creating a historic attraction.

Pope Leo will revive a centuries-old tradition on Sunday by taking a holiday at Castel Gandolfo, where residents of the lakeside town hope for a tourism boost after the late Pope Francis shunned ...

A new four-hour bus tour will visit Pope Leo XIV’s birthplace, childhood church and favorite pizza spot in the Chicago area. Tickets start at $59.

DOLTON, IL – The tiny hamlet where Pope Leo XIV was raised landed a miracle on July 1 after a village board approved the purchase of the house where he grew up, a move they hope will spark a ...

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed that priests must be celibate. And he has insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to deal with sex abusers.

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. calls ‘one of the most diverse family trees’ he’s ever come ...

Two short days after Pope Leo stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Square, a strange sentence leaped out of my husband’s mouth: “You are only two degrees of Kevin Bacon to the new ...

Flushing resident Victor Mooney, presented a commemorative pennant to Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City following a 1,000-kilometer pilgrimage ...