Leo XIV is expected to visit Nicaea — located in modern-day İznik in northwestern Turkey — to celebrate the 1,700th ...

ROME -- Pope Leo XIV celebrated on Wednesday what has been dubbed the first “green” papal Mass, using a new set of prayers ...

Reflecting on the Parable of the Good Samaritan, the Pope called for a ‘revolution of love.’ This Sunday was the first time ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass in English and Italian. Leo celebrated his first Mass as pope in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on May 9.The multilingual service began as Leo processed in and ...

Francis, history's first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent Prevost to take over a complicated diocese in Peru, then brought ...

LIVE – Updated at 04:46. Pope Leo XIV has made history after being elected the first American-born pontiff.. The 69-year-old former Robert Prevost was chosen to be the 267th pope by the Conclave ...

V ATICAN CITY—The Roman Catholic Church elected the first American pope in its history, placing its 1.4 billion faithful in the hands of a missionary-turned-Vatican prelate who has been critical ...

The first was John I, the 53rd pontiff, in 523; the most recent was John XXIII, the 261st pope, elected in October 1958. In second place is Gregory, with 16 uses, the first in 590 and the most ...

Pope Francis, who became the first South American and first Jesuit to ascend to the most powerful position in the Catholic Church, has died at age 88 — just one day after Easter Sunday.

Vice President and former Ohio Sen. JD Vance, a Catholic convert who still has a home in Cincinnati, also welcomed the arrival of the first American pope. "Congratulations to Leo XIV, the first ...

Pope Francis makes his first general audience in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on March, 27, 2013. Credit: Universal Images Group via Getty/Andia. By The Associated PressUpdated April 21, 2025.