By Linda Bordoni Thousands of young people gathered at Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox Major League Baseball team, on Saturday, June 14, for a joyful celebration organised by the Archdiocese of Chicago to honour the recent election of their native son, Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Leo addresses hometown Chicago crowd and encourages them to make a difference in the world - Pope Leo XIV was elected in May

Winning her second Grand Slam singles title, 21-year-old Coco Gauff makes history at the French Open. Pope Leo time in Peru: how Peru fondly remembers the man who built the church there.

Carlo Acutis, an Italian teenager, was meant to be made a saint in April, but the ceremony was postponed because of Pope Francis’ death.

Archbishop James P. Green may not be a familiar name to American Catholics, but the Philadelphia native has played a significant role on the world stage,

A neighborhood bear was seen for the first time since the Eaton Fire in January, taking a dip in a homeowners' pool. "I wasn't sure how far back everybody else was behind me, so I knew to just keep rolling, to keep going, because I really wanted to get first," high school athlete Brooklyn Anderson said.

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

Bennett stressed that Francis encouraged the charismatic renewal, along with other lay movements, like Pope Benedict XVI and John Paul II before him.