Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will be formally inaugurated on Sunday with a mass in St. Peter’s Square.

It was a simple question of hygiene,” wrote Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti, who said the Pope was worried about germs.

Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s installation in Vatican City.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will celebrate his inaugural mass on Sunday, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” and that the unborn and elderly enjoy dignity as God’s creatures, ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV affirmed Friday that the family is founded on the “stable union between a man and a woman,” ...

Pope Leo XIV is expected to live in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, unlike the late Pope Francis who shunned the palace in ...

Around quarter of a million people are expected to pack into St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Sunday to watch the ...

Pope Leo will be formally inaugurated as the next Pope on May 18, and the 69-year-old American, born in Chicago, Illinois, ...