It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass took place on the morning of Sunday, May 18, in St Peter's Square in Rome. Having sprinkled ...

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

Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass at St. Peter’s Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, ...

Around 6 a.m., thousands of people began to file into St. Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass. Thousands of volunteers from the Red Cross and other groups took positions in the streets ...

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

Eusebius also cites 1 Peter 5:13 as proof that St. Peter was in Rome, a.k.a. Babylon (II, 15). Peter's primacy is evident from the Bible; his name is always first in the lists of the Apostles (Matt.

The group was in Rome as history unfolded ... Arnold said they would have loved to head straight to St. Peter’s Square, to see the new pope walk out on the balcony, but exhaustion from the ...

at St. Peter’s Square. The news release said it is a “longstanding tradition of the Catholic Church, and a defining moment in Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate.” While in Rome, Carney will meet ...

Those attorneys general had all traveled to Rome for free – thanks to an association ... like visits to museums and a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica. The schedule for Friday listed only an ...

When you think of Rome, you picture the Colosseum, narrow alleyways, and crowds of tourists. But as I survey my surroundings on the Viale Europa, the streets are deserted, the landscape positively ...

On St. Peter’s Square, a crowd began to form early ... Father Igor Kassah, 44, a chaplain at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital—where the pope had been treated in recent weeks—stood among them.