Tens of thousands of people are streaming into St. Peter's Square for the formal installation service of history's first ...

All eyes will be on how the new pope manages the throngs of pilgrims, tourists and curiosity-seekers, and the babies who will ...

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

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.

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle will present the Ring of the Fisherman to Pope Leo XIV during his inauguration mass at the ...

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

Leo XIV, the first ever American pope, will be formally inaugurated as the 267th pontiff Sunday during a special Mass in St.

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 ...

Tens of thousands of Catholics and politicians including US Vice President JD Vance will gather at the Vatican on Sunday for ...

Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass Sunday, May 18, with world leaders and large crowds expected to gather in ...

Pope Leo XIV will formally take up his role as leader of the global Catholic Church on Sunday, with a Mass in St. Peter's ...