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

Pope Leo XIV meets Ukraine's President Zelenskyy after the formal inauguration of his pontificate in St Peter's Square, at ...

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

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 ...

Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is head of the world's 1.4 billion ... Before anything else, Deffenbaugh said he'd give his not-so-new leader a hug. "If he'd stop in, we'd just sit down and talk ...

When Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected supreme pontiff of the Catholic Church on May 8, he chose the name Leo XIV in part ... Now, the new pope says, it can help us, along with the ...