Pope Leo XIV presided over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and a crowd of 200,000 people gathered in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Following the death of Pope Francis on ...

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A Chicago native and Villanova University graduate ... For their part, Trump, Vance and other American leaders have congratulated the new pope. Of Leo XIV, Trump wrote it was “such an honor ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Vice President JD Vance will lead a U.S. delegation to attend the inaugural mass on Sunday of Pope Leo XIV, the first American ... a Chicago native, was chosen a week ago ...

Vice President JD Vance will travel this weekend ... then-Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, to lead the Catholic Church, making him the first American ever to hold the post.