Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history. Stories include Lester Holt’s Chicago debut, Oprah, last show, ...

Despite losing 1,200 churches, America has gained 2.9 million Catholics since 2010, according to an NBC News analysis of data from the U.S. Religion Census.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and ...

Where census takers in Louisiana recorded them as Black, census takers in Illinois recorded them as white. So, too, do other ...

On this episode of The Rundown, host MaryCatherine Neal talks to 8News anchor Madison Moore and Assistant News Director Conner Nuckols about how the station covered Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Pope Leo XIV, elected May 8, is the first pope from the Order of St. Augustine, also known as the Augustinians or OSA, an ...

Eastern and Latin alike — who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands,” Leo said May 14.

Will Leo follow in the steps of his predecessor Pope Francis and be a progressive? Or will he be a conservative, as many ...

A special mass at St. John the Evangelist honored Pope Leo XIV, who was born in Chicago and has deep ties to Latin America.

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Jannik Sinner says it’s “a good thing for us tennis players” that the new pope likes to play the sport. Even if Leo XIV ...

Peruvians have celebrated the election of a man many knew as a missionary and bishop during his 2 decades of service in the ...