Pope Leo XIV has taken his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square ahead of installation, waving from the back of ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

When Catholics heard on May 8 the new pope had chosen the name Leo XIV, the thoughts of many turned immediately to Leo XIII, ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a relinquishing of papal authority from Europe.

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...

As late as 1903, at the death of Pope Leo XIII, this verification was ritually done by tapping the forehead of the pope with a silver hammer. It may also have been done with Pope John XXIII ...

VATICAN CITY — A silver wand in hand, Cardinal Luigi Oreglia stood at the door to Pope Leo XIII’s bedchamber on July 20, 1903. It was early, about 1:30 a.m. The 93-year-old pope had been sick ...

The basilica is the resting place of seven other popes, but this is the first papal burial outside the Vatican since Pope Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was entombed in another Roman basilica in 1924.