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The first official portrait of Pope Leo XIV was released on Friday. Vatican News shared the portrait on Facebook, and in just three hours, the post was shared over 4,700 times and liked 1,200 times.
From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Erin Lothes, an environmental theologian.
The new pope met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Sunday. LONDON and ROME -- Pope Leo XIV spoke on Sunday of the remarkable times during which he's been elevated to the papacy ...
DOLTON, IL – They said this village didn't have a prayer. Then Leo came along. Plagued by the tempests of drugs, murder, corruption and other vices of biblical proportion for much of the past ...
US VP Vance invites Pope Leo XIV at Vatican meeting to visit US Leo, elected May 8, is first pope from US As cardinal, Leo was critical of Trump administration VATICAN CITY, May 19 (Reuters ...
U.S. Vice President JD Vance extended an invitation to Pope Leo XIV to visit the United States during a meeting at the Vatican on Monday ahead of a flurry of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to make ...
Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, greeting the tens of thousands of people who joined presidents, patriarchs and princes for the formal ...
Pope Leo XIV is the first pontiff from the United States. Leo said the church must confront modern challenges while maintaining its traditions, and rejected what he called "religious propaganda ...
Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, vowed Sunday to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace in the world, offering a message of communion during an inaugural ...
Vice President JD Vance and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Pope Leo XIV Monday, a day after the pope's Inauguration Mass of his pontificate.The Holy See's Dicastery for Communication ...
The Archdiocese of Chicago will host a celebration at Rate Field, the home of the Chicago White Sox, on June 14 to honor Pope Leo XIV, according to a statement released by the archdiocese.
Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...