Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV has celebrated his first Mass, a day after his historic election as the first U.S.-born pope in the church’s ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass with the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, May 9. The pontiff, born Robert ...

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

Pope Leo XIV on Friday celebrated mass in the Sistine Chapel as Italian media saluted the first American pope and called ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning, just a day after being elected to replace ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, hours before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, said Friday that his election was both a cross and a blessing as he ...

The Mass comes less than a day after 133 cardinal electors selected Leo as the 267th pope of the Catholic Church.

In a stunning decision, the Catholic College of Cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV, the first pope born in the U.S., leading to ...