Pope Leo XIV on Thursday announced a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York, tapping Bishop Ronald Hicks of Joliet, Illinois to lead one of the nation’s largest and most influential ...

‘Indeed, they themselves became lamps capable of spreading the light of Christ,’ Pope Leo XIV said in his homily on Oct. 19. Pope Leo XIV presides at the Oct. 19, 2025, Holy Mass and canonization for ...

Pope Leo XIV made his most important U.S. appointment to date Thursday, naming a fellow south suburbanite as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest archdioceses as it navigates ...

ROME and NEW YORK -- Pope Leo XIV appointed on Thursday Bishop Ronald A. Hicks as archbishop-designate of New York, moving a fellow Chicagoan to one of the highest Catholic posts in the United States.