Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei. On his first papal trip, he went to the Sanctuary of Our Mother of Good ...

JD Vance is attending Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The trip could set the tone for the Trump administration's relationship with ...

For many centuries we have seen the custom of a new pope changing his name. It signals the kind of papacy he envisions as he assumes the mantle.