By Charles BallaroHalina Bennet and Jacey Fortin As a boy growing up in a suburb of Chicago, the future Pope Leo XIV did not pretend to be a cowboy or a bank robber. Instead, he liked to play ...

Leo would play priest and distribute wafers as Holy Communion. “We kind of known he was special, and we used to tease him about being pope when he was six years old and stuff,” Louis told NBC ...

Robert Francis Prevost (69), who now leads the Catholic Church as Pope Leo ... a child Even as a child, the new head of the Catholic Church had a specific career aspiration. "He wanted to play ...