In Detroit, traditionalist Catholics were bracing for a crackdown. The promise of change in Rome offers them a sliver of hope ...

At 11:00 am (0900 GMT) Friday, the 69-year-old sometimes referred to in Rome as the "Latin Yankee" for his time as a missionary in Peru, will return to the chapel to celebrate a private mass with ...

The new Pope is Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV - the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass on Friday, a day after his historic election as the first ...

The cardinals began the day by participating in a final pre-conclave Mass in St. Peter ... up their seats around the main altar, which lies above the traditional burial place of St. Peter ...

Traditional Latin Mass is much more “real,” he suggests ... A social media aesthetic featuring lit candles on a sprawling stone altar and highly stylized Virgin Mary statues further valorizes the ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate mass Friday, the day after becoming the first US head of the Catholic Church, with the world ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, has addressed cardinals in English at the start of his first Mass ... as he approached the altar and Michelangelo ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, delivering a passionate speech that ...

Francis lived in the Vatican hotel rather than the Apostolic Palace, wore his old orthotic shoes rather than the traditional red ... on celebrating the Latin Mass. He said he was healing divisions ...