Pope Leo XIV is set to deliver his inaugural Sunday blessing from the Vatican, continuing a tradition started by Pope Pius XII in 1954. This weekly event, featuring the Angelus prayer to Mary ...

For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s Square. The new pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s ...

What Is the Traditional Sunday Blessing That Popes Deliver in St. Peter’s Square? VATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment ...

The Vatican announced Leo would deliver his first such prayer on Sunday, which is coincidentally Mother’s Day in Italy and the United States, among other countries. The prayer to Mary ...

FILE -- Pope John Paul II appears at a window of his rooms of the 10th floor of Rome's Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital, Sunday, March 13, 2005, where he was hospitalized, for the traditional blessing ...

Tens of thousands of people packed St. Peter’s Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. They cheered him on as he ...