Pope Leo XIV blessed the 159 cyclists competing in the Giro d’Italia as the three-week race’s final stage began with an ...

Peter the Apostle is one of Christianity’s most revered figures. This being the case, the mystery surrounding his death and ...

Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square ahead of his installation on Sunday, waving from the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square ...

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

That homily was delivered during the American pope's inaugural mass, called the Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. An open-topped popemobile ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass ...

Habemus papam, we have a pope!” exclaimed Levi Meyer, a junior at St. John Vianney College Seminary (SJV) in St. Paul who is ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will formally begin his papacy with a grand inaugural Mass at St Peter’s Square on Sunday. Tens of thousands, including US Vice President JD Vance and Ukraine ...

VATICAN MEDIA/AFP via Getty Images While every ... No subsequent pope in history as opted to take the name of the first pope, St. Peter. Renáta Sedmáková – stock.adobe.com In ...

For the past 24 hours, much of the world’s attention has been on the Vatican, where the papal conclave had been taking place. A man in St. Peter’s Square holds up an American flag as people ...

An American flag is displayed as Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, waves as he arrives to celebrate his ...