The leader of the Catholic Diocese of Joliet is taking over as the head of the Archdiocese of New York.

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

Like the pope, who served as bishop of Chiclayo in Peru and is a naturalized Peruvian citizen, Hicks has lived and worked extensively in Latin America.