The morning after being elected the 267th Pope, Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass with the Cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first U.S.-born pontiff, said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his first Mass as the head of the Catholic ...

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

Where Christians are "mocked, opposed, despised or at best tolerated and pitied" is where the Catholic Church's "missionary ...

Pope Leo XIV Steps Onto the World Stage. On Friday morning, Pope Leo spoke once more when he presided over his first Mass as ...

Full text of the first public homily of Pope Leo XIV, given at a Mass for the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel May ...

Pope Leo XIV delivered his first public homily as pope during a Mass with the College of Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on ...

A priest reacts as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central ...

You have called me to carry that cross, and to be blessed with that mission, and I know I can rely on each and every one of you to walk with me,” the new pontiff said.