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1 week ago | 
catholiccourier.com | Simone Orendain |Gina Capellazzi
CHICAGO (OSV News) — In what started out as a cloudy afternoon, the then bright and sunny stadium of Pope Leo XIV’s favorite baseball team, Chicago’s faithful cheered on one of their own’s election to the papacy. The June 14 celebration, organized by the Archdiocese of Chicago, included a series of short video clips and first-ever airing of Pope Leo XIV’s video message to the world’s youth at Rate Field on Chicago’s Southside.
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1 week ago | 
catholiccourier.com | Simone Orendain |Gina Capellazzi
CHICAGO (OSV News) — Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than a dozen priests and bishops led by Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich concelebrated a special Mass for the election of a first-ever Chicago-born pope. Trinity Sunday’s vigil Mass June 14 was at Rate Field, the home park of the Chicago White Sox, Pope Leo XIV’s favorite baseball team.
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1 week ago | 
angelusnews.com | Simone Orendain |Justin Mclellan
Under a bright sun, around an altar set up at centerfield, more than a dozen priests and bishops led by Chicago Cardinal Blase J. Cupich concelebrated a special Mass for the election of a first-ever Chicago-born pope. Trinity Sunday's vigil Mass June 14 was at Rate Field, the home park of the Chicago White Sox, Pope Leo XIV's favorite baseball team.
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2 weeks ago | 
detroitcatholic.com | Simone Orendain |Charles Fox |Greg Erlandson
CHICAGO (OSV News) ─ Much has been reported about Pope Leo XIV's earliest days of playing priest at the family's home in Dolton, a suburb south of Chicago. But his eldest brother, Louis Prevost, said, in hindsight, something his brothers teased the young Robert F. Prevost about was a clear indication of just how "blessed" the first pope from the United States was, even from babyhood.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Simone Orendain |Lucia Silecchia |Jenna Cooper
CHICAGO (OSV News) -- The Augustinian order has been in the spotlight since May 8, the day one of its own was elected pope. Interest in Pope Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, has been steady, and so have the inquiries into joining the U.S. provinces of the men's Order of St. Augustine. Augustinian Father Jeremy Hiers of the Province of St. Thomas of Villanova on the East Coast said in the weeks since then-Cardinal Robert F.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Simone Orendain |Lucia Silecchia |Greg Kandra |Jenna Cooper
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(OSV News) -- Opponents of physician-assisted suicide legislation in Illinois are breathing a sigh of relief, but not for long because they say this is not the end of lawmakers' push for hastened death for patients deemed terminally ill.
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1 month ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Simone Orendain |Nicholas DiMarzio
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CHICAGO (OSV News) -- The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, and participants will get a video message from the native son of the Windy City. "Pope Leo XIV will greet us in Chicago and offer a special video message to the young people of the world, which will be broadcast first from our event," the Chicago Archdiocese said on its website.
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1 month ago | 
catholiccourier.com | Simone Orendain |Gina Capellazzi
CHICAGO (OSV News) — The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, a native son of the Windy City. The archdiocese said in an announcement the events including the Mass, preceded by music, a film, speakers and prayer will all take place at Rate Field, the ballpark of the Chicago White Sox. The stadium has capacity for some 40,000 participants.
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1 month ago | 
angelusnews.com | Simone Orendain |Simon Caldwell |Mike Cisneros |Robert Brennan
The Archdiocese of Chicago has scheduled a Mass and a special program June 14 to celebrate the election and inauguration of Pope Leo XIV, and participants will get a video message from the native son of the Windy City. "Pope Leo XIV will greet us in Chicago and offer a special video message to the young people of the world, which will be broadcast first from our event," the Chicago Archdiocese said on its website.
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2 months ago | 
thebostonpilot.com | Simone Orendain |Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
(OSV News) -- On the 50th anniversary of when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and left close to 2 million people dead, the Catholic Church there, still a fledgling minority, is making strides, according to religious missionaries who have spent significant years of service in the southeast Asian country.
