Pope Leo will also celebrate a Mass for the soul of the late Pope Francis and deceased cardinals the following day.

ROME, Italy - St. Peter's Square in Vatican City is one of the latest stops on Rick Rowe's trip of a lifetime in partnership with Collette. Rowe is on a tour of Italy with a group of about 40 ...

Pope Leo XIV proclaimed the first two saints of his papacy in a historic ceremony at St. Peter’s Square in Rome on Sunday, including the first of the millennial generation. Blesseds Carlo Acutis and ...

Pope Leo XIV declared St. John Henry Newman a doctor of the church, also declaring the saint co-patron with St. Thomas ...

ROME — Thousands of faithful from all over the world took part in a solemn pontifical Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, ...

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Pope Leo XIV’s Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square was attended by 30,000 pilgrims in Rome for the Jubilee of Marian Spirituality and thousands more people who gathered in neighboring streets outside ...

ROME, Italy — Pope Leo XIV marked his 70th birthday on Sunday by thanking God, his parents and all those who prayed for him. Leo, the first American pope, saw giant “Happy birthday” banners, in ...