The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first ...

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

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled ...

Pope Leo XIV vowed Sunday to work for unity in a polarized Catholic Church and world, as history’s first American pope ...

Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has ...

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

Brothers and sisters, I would like that our first great desire be for a united Church, a sign of unity and communion, which ...

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

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On ...