MANILA, Philippines – Newly elected Pope Leo XIV made his first appearance on the central balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica ... speech and blessing. The Church’s new leader was elected ...

This new initiative invites the faithful to raise their voices in song alongside Pope Leo XIV, who has done so himself ...

HE WAS IN SAINT PETER’S SQUARE FOR THE HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT, PROUD THAT AN AMERICAN WILL NOW LEAD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. CARDINAL SAW SOMETHING IN HIM THAT MADE HIM A MAN FOR THE TIME ...

The Cardinals at the May 7, 2025, Mass in Saint Peter ... forward Jesus’s mandate to Peter and is a representative of Christ on earth and is “the rock on which the Church is built ...

Before he was elevated to the Chair of Saint Peter, Cardinal Robert Prevost ... he will keep the Church’s gaze fixed on the “peripheries,” reaching out to victims of what Francis called ...

The singer joined the crowd gathered at Saint Peter's ... the first U.S. pope, Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost, who becomes the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church.

In his first Sunday blessing as the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV ... the soft-spoken Leo's first appearance at the balcony of Saint Peter's saw him wish peace to "all the people ...

He lay in state at Saint Peter's Basilica for three days of mourning before he was buried on April 26, 2025 (archived here). He was interred at the Santa Maria Maggiore church in Rome after a ...

And no pope has ever taken the name Peter, out of reverence for Saint Peter, the apostle considered the Church’s first leader.

a Church historian and lecturer at Oxford University’s history faculty. Cardinals attend the Fifth Novemdiale Mass in memory of late Pope Francis in Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City, April 30. | ...

Faithful gather for a rosary prayer and a candlelight procession in Saint Peter's Square ... Francis called the "Church that goes forth": a Church focused outward. "There's no point in staying ...