SCRANTON, Pa. — Parishioners at St. Peter's Cathedral in Scranton held a palm branch in their hand as a reference to the bible, where people welcomed Jesus by laying down their cloaks and waving palm ...

More than 250,000 palm and olive branches and more than 20,000 pilgrims filled St. Peter's Square for Palm Sunday at the Vatican — and finally, as the Mass concluded, Pope Francis was there, too. The ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated a private Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. The ...

LONDON and ROME -- Pope Leo XIV spoke on Sunday of the remarkable times during which he's been elevated to the papacy, saying in his first homily as pontiff that he will rise to the task "with fear ...

The Vatican said some 200,000 people attended the Mass at St. Peter’s Square, which marked the start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD Vance ...

VATICAN CITY, — Pope Leo XIV, leader of world’s Catholics, will be holding his first mass as pope on the morning of Sunday May 18. The new pope will preside over an inauguration mass in St. Peter's ...

VATICAN CITY — Chicago native Pope Leo XIV called for unity in an increasingly divided world Sunday during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square, marking the official start of his historic papacy ...