Bishop Kicanas overjoyed for friend, fellow Chicagoan Pope Leo XIV

Bishop Kicanas overjoyed for friend, fellow Chicagoan Pope Leo XIV

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Like Pope Leo XIV, Bishop Emeritus Gerald Kicanas of the Diocese of Tucson was born and raised in Chicago. The two men have known each other for more than 30 years.

A pope from Chicago can help bridge Catholic divides

Chicago native Robert Francis Prevost has gone by “Bob” for most of his life. On Thursday, the 69-year-old became Pope Leo XIV — the first American ever to lead the Catholic Church and the first nativ...

The Mother Whose Catholic Faith Inspired the Future Pope - Overpasses For America

Her friends called her Millie. The future pope called her Ma. Mildred Prevost, whose youngest son, Robert, would one day take the name Pope Leo XIV, cut her own extraordinary path of ambition, talent and religious devotion through her hometown of Chicago. Born Mildred Agnes Martinez, she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1947 and attended graduate school at DePaul University, an academic path that was unusual for women at that …

Chicago abuzz with 'unbelievable' joy the first American Pope is a hometown son

CHICAGO (OSV News) — Catholics and non-Catholics alike were abuzz with excitement in Chicago May 8, after one of the city’s native sons became pope. Taking the name Leo XIV, the new pontiff has made many firsts. On the sunny street outside Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a cab driver, Veronica Canadas, sat in her white taxi, listening intently to media coverage of the announcement of the new pope. She had just learned that Cardinal Robert F. Pre…

U.S. cardinals react to the new pope being from Chicago

Members of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops are digesting that one of their own is now the head of the Catholic Church.

How a Chicago native became pope

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