The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Tens of thousands of well-wishers gathered for Leo XIV's inaugural mass at the Vatican, which sees him formally take up his ...

Erie Catholic Bishop Lawrence Persico met the new Pope Leo XIV (formerly Bishop Robert Prevost) in 2015. The Most Rev. Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and former bishop of the ...

Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter's Square on Sunday, greeting the tens of thousands of people ...

According to Franco, the new pope’s strong take on Russia might be “a tool to increase pressure on Moscow.” Immediately after his election on May 11, the Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV made an ...

Pope Leo XIV is seen as less progressive on queer issues. The New York Times noted in a recent story that as a bishop in Peru, he opposed a plan to include gender teaching in school, noting that ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has made peace with Jannik Sinner. The top-ranked tennis player visited the new pope on Wednesday, gave him a tennis racket and offered to play, during an off ...

Leo, the first American and second Latin American pope, celebrated his inaugural Mass at the Vatican after waving to the ...

Pope Leo XIV had a phone call with Ukrainian President ... Zelenskyy said in a post on the Telegram app that his first conversation with the new pontiff was “very warm and truly substantive ...

A family of seagulls — two adults feeding a chick — had gathered by the papal chimney a couple of minutes before white smoke billowed out to announce the election of a new pope. The Holy ...