A view of St. Peter's Square during the inauguration Mass celebrated by Pope Leo XIV. Getty Images Key Background. Leo—who was born Robert Francis Prevost—was elected as the new leader of the ...

Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, was elected 267th pontiff by the College of Cardinals during a papal conclave on May 8, 2025. His predecessor, Pope Francis, created him a cardinal in 2023.

Leo XIV stated that his intention is to 'persevere in the effort to reestablish full visible communion between our Churches..

Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Catholic Church, presided over his inaugural Mass at the Vatican on Sunday, where thousands of people and a number of world leaders gathered to meet and ...

Pope Leo takes aim at ‘autocrats’ during inaugural mass in front of tens of thousands of well-wishers ... who wrote a book about Pope Francis, described the homily as “very touching”.

According to the master of liturgical ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, Pope Leo will be both blessing and personally ...

“In this sense, Francis might have been a parenthesis or an interlude, more than a changer of the tradition in ‘papal style,’” he said in an email. At his inaugural Mass on May 18, Pope Leo XIV ...

Pope Francis, who died in April at age 88, was sometimes scathing in his criticism of President Donald Trump. In 2016, when ...

According to the Rev. John Wauck, professor of church communication at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome, Leo’s clothing choices are a “return to form,” and his attire similar to that worn ...

Members of the Hermandad del Señor de los Milagros of Georgia (Lord of Miracles Brotherhood), based at Our Lady of the ...

Supporters of Pope Leo XIV gathered Saturday, not in a cathedral or a church, but a baseball stadium the pope once frequented ...