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Vatican City

Patti Smith meets fellow Chicago legend, Pope Leo XIV

  • Jul 31

Vatican agrees to review closure of suburban Catholic school

  • Jun 4

Pope names Mexican-American woman to lead Vatican communications

  • Jun 3

Johnson continues Italy trip by touring historic sites with Rome mayor

  • May 30

CTU president's travel to meet pope draws mixed response

  • May 28

Chicago-based group gets private audience with Pope Leo at Vatican

  • May 18

Pope Leo XIV rejects claims that God justifies war in Palm Sunday Mass

  • Mar 29

Vatican expands visitor experience to mark 400th anniversary

  • Feb 17

Latest Videos

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Chicago elementary school students react to meeting Pope Leo

  • Oct 8, 2025
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Chicago students to attend audience with Pope Leo in Vatican City

  • Oct 8, 2025
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Chicago students to travel to Vatican City for papal audience

  • Oct 1, 2025
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Pope Francis skips Palm Sunday homily at start of busy Holy Week

  • Mar 25, 2024
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Pope Francis cancels more engagements Monday due to flu-like symptoms

  • Feb 26, 2024
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Pope cancels trip to Dubai for UN conference on doctors' orders

  • Nov 29, 2023
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Pope meets relatives of Israeli hostages and Palestinians in Gaza

  • Nov 23, 2023
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Vatican steps closer to allowing transgender Catholics to be baptized

  • Nov 9, 2023

Latest Stories

Vatican again OKs Illinois-born Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification after 2019 ceremony derailed

The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battle over his remains and then by concerns about how he handled clergy sexual misconduct cases.

  • Feb 9

Chicago Bulls sportscaster meets Pope Leo, gifts him jersey

Pope Leo XIV is a known White Sox fan, and he recently got a new Chicago jersey for the Bulls.

  • Nov 6, 2025
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Pope Leo XIV appears to receive Cubs jersey from Assyrian church leader from Chicago

Assyrian church leader Mar Awa III, who is from Chicago, presented Pope Leo XIV with a gift.

  • Oct 29, 2025
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Vatican will return dozens of artifacts to Indigenous groups in Canada as gesture of reconciliation

Negotiations on returning the Vatican items accelerated after Pope Francis in 2022 met with Indigenous leaders who had traveled to the Vatican to receive his apology for the church's role in running Canada's disastrous residential schools.

  • Oct 22, 2025

Pope gives Venezuela reason to celebrate by canonizing its beloved 'doctor of the poor' as 1st saint

Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's "doctor of the poor" before tens of thousands of people.

  • Oct 19, 2025