Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

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The service marks the official start of Leo's papacy just under a month after the death of his predecessor, Pope Francis. The ...

The Catholic Centre for Studies and Media in Jordan has welcomed the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the new head of the Catholic Church, now known as Pope Leo XIV. The centre hailed ...

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The suspense builds up as the world awaits the new pope. Cardinals from 90 countries cast their votes in the same manner, relatively unchanged for nearly 800 years.

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The other symbolically important moment of the Mass is the representational rite of obedience to Leo: Whereas in the past all cardinals would vow obedience to the new pope, more recent papal ...

On Sunday morning, May 18, a Mass for the beginning of the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV will take place in St. Peter's Square ...

COMMENTARY: Papal initiation homilies have long served as moments of clarity, not only inaugurating a pontificate but ...