Leo will be formally installed as pope at a Mass on May 18, the Vatican said Friday, and will preside over his first general audience May 21.

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -In his first month, Pope Leo has taken a very different approach to his predecessor ...

Catholics in the northeastern Romanian commune of Răducăneni have gathered to mourn the death of Pope Francis with a special mass and prayer ... is an overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian country ...

In his first appearance to the world Thursday evening, the 69-year-old wore the traditional red cape of the papacy — which Francis ... s mass deportation plans. An Augustinian pope The last ...

Last public word of Pope Francis was his Urbi Et Orbi message ... Different popes had met with leaders of different Eastern Orthodox churches but never with the head of the Russian Orthodox ...

This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians ... calendars used by Western and Eastern churches to determine the first day of spring. Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — At a solemn funeral Mass on Saturday (April 26), political and religious dignitaries joined an enormous crowd in St. Peter’s Square to mourn the death of Pope Francis in a ...

Pope Leo XIV sits inside the Sistine Chapel during his first Mass after being elected to succeed Pope Francis ... and an important moment in Catholic-Orthodox relations. Robert Prevost waves ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope ... Mass as head of the Catholic Church. Leo spoke off-the-cuff in English in the Sistine Chapel to the cardinals who elected him to follow in the footsteps of Pope Francis ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrates his first Mass on Friday after his historic ... to lead the Catholic Church and follow in Pope Francis' reform-minded footsteps.