Tbells of Rome tolled on Easter Monday, 2025, as news spread of Pope Francis' death at 88, marking the end of a transformative papacy that began in 2013. Thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square for ...

Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square ahead of his installation on Sunday, waving from the ...

It’s just remarkable to see someone I know as the pope,” said the Rev. Joe Roccasalva, an Augustinian priest who grew up in ...

Habemus papam, we have a pope!” exclaimed Levi Meyer, a junior at St. John Vianney College Seminary (SJV) in St. Paul who is ...

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 Mass ...

An open-topped popemobile had driven Leo on Sunday morning through St. Peter's Square, where about 100,000 people had gathered to catch a glimpse of him, according to the Vatican's press office.

But soon the crowd in St. Peter's Square fell to a hush, as the world waited for the next piece of careful choreography: a Latin pronouncement with the name of the cardinal who had just been ...

DETROW: NPR's Ruth Sherlock was in the crowd at St. Peter's Square when it happened. Ruth, what was it like? RUTH SHERLOCK, BYLINE: Hi. Yeah, well, if there's one thing the Catholic Church does ...

Americans in St. Peter's Square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope Thursday and had taken the name Leo XIV."Who in our lifetime ...