Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Catholic Church, presided over his inaugural Mass at the Vatican on Sunday, where thousands of people and a number of world leaders gathered to meet and ...

Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled with ancient and symbolic rituals. By Jason Horowitz Reporting from ...

VATICAN CITY — Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world will gather in Vatican City on Sunday as Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV presides over his inauguration Mass, which will ...

But as the first American pontiff readies for his sacred inauguration Sunday in St. Peter’s Square, the burning question for the globe’s largest Christian faith is whether Pope Leo XIV can ...

The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home in Dolton has put it up for auction in June, with a minimum asking price of $250,000. Homer Glen-based home rehabber Pawel Radzik paid $66,000 last year ...

Leo, formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, was appointed as bishop of Chiclayo, Peru, in 2015 and took on major leadership roles in the Vatican from 2023 through 2025: prefect for the Dicastery for ...

Cleaning up social media accounts while job hunting took an all new meaning following the election of Pope Leo XIV, who wiped his personal accounts and made his first official post as pontiff this ...

On March 14, 2023, the bishops of Peru awarded the Gold ... During the ceremony, Prevost — now Pope Leo XIV — referenced how he met with then-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio several times ...

Pope Leo XIV called free speech and the press a "precious gift" as he asked for the release of imprisoned journalists. He made the comments during an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists ...

Pope Leo XIV addressed the College of Cardinals on Saturday. He said artificial intelligence posed "new challenges." Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV on May 8. The growing prevalence of artificial ...

30, 2023. In his first Sunday St. Peter’s Square blessing as pope, Leo called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, for relief to the “exhausted civilian population” and the release of ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a ...