Vice President JD Vance is headed back to Vatican City for Pope Leo XIV's inaugural Mass. Vance is leading a delegation of U.S. leaders to attend the first American pope's inaugural Mass on May 18.

During the Mass, the pontiff appeared to choke up when the two potent symbols of the papacy were placed on him – the pallium woolen stole over his shoulders and the fisherman's ring on his finger.

Pope Leo XVI will be formally installed as pontiff when he holds his inaugural public Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18, the Vatican said. The first U.S.-born pope, formerly Cardinal Robert ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history's first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as the head of the ...

Over the coming days, from Friday's mass to Sunday's midday Regina Coeli prayer and a meeting with journalists at the Vatican on Monday, the actions and words of Leo will be closely scrutinised.

Cardinals have entered St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican to celebrate a final Mass before the conclave to elect the next pope. The Mass precedes the secretive, ritual-filled process to find a new ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV ’s inaugural Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism that connects back to Peter, Jesus’ apostle ...

called the Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. An open-topped popemobile had driven Leo on Sunday morning through St. Peter's Square ...