Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

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Pope Benedict XVI greets the future Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican Gardens. Credit: Courtesy of the Augustinian Midwest Province ...

Vatican Media, via Associated Press Visitors in St. Peter’s Square the day after the election of the new pope, the first to be American-born. Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times Leo giving a ...