ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV declared himself a Roman on Sunday as he completed the final ceremonial steps cementing his role as the bishop of Rome. The first American pope formally took possession ...

Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene as Pope Leo XIV is installed in Vatican City. Global dignitaries and faith leaders from around the world gathered in Vatican City on ...

Pope Leo XIV held a private meeting with U.S. Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in the papal library on Monday morning. Details of the meeting were not released ...

Leo XIV, formerly Robert Prevost, is now the spiritual head of roughly 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide. He is the most powerful American in history who was not elected to the White House.

On Sunday, Vance led a U.S. delegation at the inaugural Mass of the first U.S.-born pope, Leo XIV. Both pontiffs — Francis during his papacy, Leo in his prior service as Cardinal Robert Francis ...

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 ...

The new pope met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday. LONDON and ROME -- Pope Leo XIV spoke on Sunday of the remarkable times during which he's been elevated to the papacy ...

EWTN From St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Holy Mass for the historic inauguration of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV. U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are among ...

It seems he took his own advice a bit too literally, because he left a mess for his successor, Pope Leo XIV, whose inaugural Mass will take place this Sunday. In today’s Catholic Church ...

Pope Leo XIV was elected pontiff on May 8. Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, will celebrate his inaugural mass on Sunday, according to the Vatican. The mass ...

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 ...

Prior to his elevation to the papacy, Pope Leo XIV stayed out of the spotlight on certain reforms backed by his predecessor but maintained a close relationship with Pope Francis and support for ...