A once-abandoned church on a Far South Side corner has gotten the world's attention with news that Pope Leo XIV spent his formative years there.

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The pontiff broke the news on "NBC Nightly News" with anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one ...

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No problem. Pope Leo XIV, as he will be known, is very Chicago. He was born at Mercy Hospital in Chicago’s Bronzeville ...