Pope Leo XIV has blessed an NFL player ahead of the 2025 regular season. The first American pope is from Chicago, Illinois.

Detroit Lions tight end and Iowa football alum Sam LaPorta and his wife visited the Vatican City and received a blessing from ...

Former Iowa football star tight end Sam LaPorta recently got married and saw the blessings continue with a special trip to ...

After a Pro Bowl season in his rookie year in 2023, LaPorta hauled in 60 catches for 726 yards and seven touchdowns over 16 ...

Jonathan Roumie, the actor who plays Jesus on the hit biblical series "The Chosen," met Pope Leo XIV this week at the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV affirmed Wednesday that priests must be celibate and insisted that bishops take “firm and decisive” action to ...

The Lions - now that they have The Vatican on their side - are coming back into 2025 with some extra juice as they figure to ...

The player and his partner Callahan recently visited the Vatican - just days after tying the knot - to meet the first ever ...

Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law ending the death penalty in Illinois, the future pope thanked him for the move. That recently ...

Let us listen to this voice that comes from on High:” the Chicago-born pope said. “Heal the lacerations caused by the bloody ...