Religious affairs specialist Martin O’Brien reports from Rome as Pope Leo XIV addressed pilgrims in St Peter’s Square ...

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

During his first visit outside the Vatican, on Saturday evening, Pope Leo XIV stopped at the Basilica of St Mary Major to pray before the icon of Mary Salus Populi Romani and at the tomb of the late ...

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as pontiff that featured some symbolic gestures suggesting a message ...

The new pope began his pontificate in the sign of peace. Today, Good Shepherd Sunday, in front of almost 100,000 people, he ...

I, too, address the world's great powers by repeating the ever-present call: ‘never again war,’” Leo said from the loggia of ...

Let the fighting cease immediately, let humanitarian aid be provided to the exhausted civilian population, and may all ...