Leo will start the day by taking his first tour through the piazza in the popemobile. The open-topped vehicle has become ...

As the first-ever American pope takes to the throne of St. Peter on Sunday, immigration advocates in the Valley hope his past ...

Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass on Sunday morning at St. Peter’s Square is an ancient ritual filled with symbolism that ...

The Catholic church on Sunday will inaugurate the first American and second Latin American pope.

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, is celebrating his inaugural Mass at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City. This ...

The cardinals’ selection of Pope Leo tests the strained relationship between the bishop of Rome and conservative Catholics.

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...

The other symbolically important moment of the Mass is the representational rite of obedience to Leo: Whereas in the past all cardinals would vow obedience to the new pope, more recent papal ...

There, she prayed on her knees before a painting of the Virgin Mary, beseeching God for the grace to enter the Carmelite ...

Francis’ papacy honored Latin American Catholics killed for their social justice work, a theologian explains – and Leo may ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will be formally inaugurated on Sunday with a mass in St. Peter’s Square.