St. Peter's is a church within Vatican City, the microstate in Rome. The word "basilica" can refer to a Roman Catholic church in which ceremonies take place, but, according to Merriam-Webster it ...

Pope Leo XIV will appear in public again this Sunday in St Peter's Square. From the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, the first pontiff from the United States, former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost ...

The cardinals began the day by participating in a final pre-conclave Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. The dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, celebrated the Mass, ...

Breaking Down Pope Leo XIV's first remarks from St. Peter's Balcony 03:55 In his first address Thursday, Pope Leo XIV spoke of peace, building bridges and helping people who are suffering.

VATICAN CITY — As the words "Habemus papam!"rang out from the famed loggia of St. Peter's Basilica, tens of thousands of people, crushed tightly together, erupted in cheers — and tears.

Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass took place on the morning of Sunday, May 18, in St Peter's Square in Rome. Having sprinkled water towards those assembled as a remembrance of baptism and heard ...

When Leo appeared for the first time before the Mass began, standing up in the famous open-top white popemobile as it pulled into the piazza in front of St. Peter’s Basilica shortly after 9 a.m ...

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, May 9, 2025 / 17:28 pm. Here is a roundup of Catholic world news that you might have missed this week: Indian and Pakistani cardinals leave St. Peter’s Basilica ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first Sunday blessing in St. Peter’s Square, calling for peace on Earth in his second large-scale address to the faithful. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by ...

Americans gathered in St. Peter’s Square on May 8 to celebrate the election of Pope Leo XIV, the first pontiff from the United States. Born Robert Francis Prevost on Chicago’s South Side, the ...

And then, as he emerges onto the balcony in St. Peter's Basilica and his name is said, in a way, there was actually almost kind of a sort of confusion because the speakers are not actually that good.

Pope Leo XIV led the Regina caeli prayer — often spoken during the time between Easter Sunday and Pentecost — in St. Peter's Basilica on Sunday, May 11. The pontiff, who was elected on May 8 ...