The program on Saturday in Chicago includes music, prayer, speeches and Pope Leo’s first public address to an American ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, ...

Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appointed Bishop Joseph Lin Yuntuan auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Fuzhou, China.

Pope Leo XIV will hold similar general audiences almost ... (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune) When Roccasalva heard Prevost’s name declared pope earlier this month, he cried tears of joy.

The choice of Leo XIV makes Prevost the first pope to take this name since Leo XIII, who led the Church from 1878 to 1903, a critical time at the turn of the 20th century when the world was ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope ... my astonishment knew no limits when the name Robert Francis Prevost was announced from the front loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order, took the name Leo XIV. In his first words as Pope Francis’ successor, uttered from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica ...

The apostle was a fisherman who first fished for food and then for souls. The pope’s name, Leo XIV, is engraved inside the ring. He will use the ring as a seal. Students sit on the lawn outside ...

Yet, the Pope himself may have told the world something significant about his vision and philosophy for the papacy through the simple act of choosing a name. The choice of Leo XIV makes Prevost ...

Pope Leo XIV, the new leader of the Catholic Church ... He selected the papal name Leo as a nod to Pope Leo XIII, who championed the working class, defending workers’ rights and fair wages ...