Joe Brandt

5 days ago | cbsnews.com | Joe Brandt

Meet the South Philly priest who introduced Pope Leo XIV to Rome: "He's just a great guy" The Rev. Paul Galetto once showed a young Robert Prevost around the city of Rome — decades later, Prevost held his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel as Pope Leo XIV, the first pope in the Catholic Church's history to be born in the United States. Galetto, the pastor at St. Paul Church in South Philadelphia's Italian Market, once lived with Prevost.

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Tom Dougherty |Joe Brandt

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Villanova University graduate, has been chosen as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics and succeeds Pope Francis. Prevost chose Leo XIV as his papal name, and he is the first American pope. Pope Leo XIV was made a cardinal in 2023 by Pope Francis. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Pope Leo XIV graduated from Villanova with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1977. This is a developing story and will be updated.

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Joe Brandt

Smoke billowed from a Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle dealership on Pennsylvania's Main Line on Thursday as firefighters worked to extinguish a two-alarm fire. Images from Chopper 3 showed firefighters on the roof of the Jaguar Land Rover Main Line showroom in St. Davids, on the 300 block of Lancaster Avenue. Crews responded to heavy fire in the rear of the building, Delaware County dispatchers said.

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Joe Brandt

May 13, 2025, will mark 40 years to the day after the MOVE bombing, when the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb on the headquarters of the Black liberation, back-to-nature group's Osage Avenue headquarters. The bomb started a fire that ended up destroying more than 60 row houses in the West Philadelphia neighborhood. Five children and six adults in the MOVE house were killed. All shared the adopted surname Africa.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Joe Brandt

Over 40,000 Pennsylvania residents will find out this week if they are owed unclaimed money or property through the "Money Match" program, and will likely start receiving checks in June, Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced Wednesday. The Money Match program allows the state treasury to automatically return property valued up to $500 to the rightful single owner after steps are taken to verify their identity. "If you receive a Money Match letter, read it and keep it," Garrity said in a news release.