Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and princes.

David Ramos/Getty Images Pope Leo ... numbers for the Mass. Now it is saying that by the end of the ceremony, some 200,000 people had reached the Vatican. Pope Leo greeted dozens of world leaders ...

Chicago-born Robert Francis Prevost addressed his inaugural mass today in St Peter’s Square, marking the beginning of his papacy after he was elected as the new pope following the death of his ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV offered a message of love and unity during an inaugural Mass on Sunday in St. Peter’s Square before an estimated 200,000 pilgrims, presidents, patriarchs and ...

It's unclear where the new pope will live, but photos show the chapel and other ... to live in the papal apartments. In 1903, Pope Pius X became the first pontiff to live in the apartments.

Leo quoted Pope Francis in denouncing the number of conflicts ravaging the globe today, saying ... Pius XII and Benedict XVI, on the more conservative end of the spectrum. He celebrated the Mass ...

IT WAS JUST ONE OF THE WAYS THAT THIS MASS WAS ABLE TO OBSERVE A VERY SPECIAL MOMENT FOR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, AND ROUGHLY 24 HOURS AFTER POPE LEO WAS NAMED THE NEW LEADER OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ...

He mentioned Pope Pius IX, Pope Pius X and John Paul II in addition to Leo ... for our new pope," Bullock said. Bullock led a Mass of Thanksgiving for the new pope on Thursday at Our Lady of ...

“I think this (new) pope is saying something about social justice ... learning he had been secretly baptized by a housekeeper; Pius X was the early 20th century anti-modernist who inspired ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year ...

saying in a post on X: “May your pontificate contribute to strengthening dialogue and the defense of human rights in a world in need of hope and unity.” 1. Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass on Friday ...