Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

Standing in front of the cascade of crimson curtains on the balcony of Saint Peter’s on the evening of May 8, with an ...

Ever since Pope John XXIII was elected in 1958, the successors of St. Peter have established a pattern: pope as disruptor, ...

Pope Leo XIV's record handling sex abuse cases while he was an Augustinian superior and bishop in Peru has come under renewed ...

An American flag is displayed as Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, waves as he arrives to celebrate his ...

Chicago native Pope Leo XIV called for unity in an increasingly divided world Sunday during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square, marking the official start of ...

A 53-year-old man caught after escaping a Minnesota Sex Offender Program facility in St. Peter is the second man in just over a week to break out of the same site, authorities say. He is also the ...

The two men came face-to-face after the Pope's inauguration mass in St Peter's Square on Sunday, local time, which the Prime Minister had been invited to. Mr Albanese said he told the Pope it was ...

It was a few heartbeats after that, when the 69-year-old, Chicago-born pontiff, the 266th successor to the throne of St. Peter, looked down at his hand. In a split second, the gravity of all that ...

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Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration mass took place in St. Peter's Square in Rome on Sunday, May 18 Latoya Gayle joined PEOPLE as an Associate Editor in 2024. Her work has previously appeared in The U.S ...

Pope Leo XIV officially opened his pontificate as history’s first American pope on Sunday, presiding over an inaugural Mass in St Peter’s Square before tens of thousands of people, presidents ...