Pope Leo XIV celebrated Pentecost Mass with participants in the Year of Hope's Jubilee of Ecclesial Movements, Associations, ...

The pontiff addressed a massive crowd, estimated by the Vatican at around 70,000, in St. Peter’s Square on June 7 during a ...

The pope spoke at the symposium “Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards Catholic-Orthodox Unity,” which took ...

Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV ...

The papacy, an institution stretching back nearly two millennia, represents one of history's longest unbroken lines of ...

In the first week of Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate, his preaching and speeches have featured quotations from saints and Church Fathers from St. Ignatius of Antioch to St. Gregory the Great.

Perhaps the most surprising first of all, however, is something that has ... country of origin before their papal election, like Pope Urban IV, the French-born former Latin patriarch of Jerusalem ...

When Robert Prevost took the name Leo XIV after being elected pope on ... III and IV in Raphael’s stanze fresco cycle in four rooms in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. All five Leo-centric ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic ... The previous one was Gregory XVI (1831-1846), a Camaldolese monk. In all, 34 of the 266 popes ...