Editor's Note: For the latest updates onPope Leo XIV's first full day as pontiff, visit USA TODAY's coverage for Friday, May 9. Pope Leo XIV marked his first full day as leader of the 1.4-billion ...

May 9, 2025 Leo XIV, the first pope from the United States, presided over his first Mass as leader of 1.4 billion Roman Catholics on Friday, pledging to align himself with “ordinary people ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

This house of God is a total real-estate blessing! The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago yanked the humble abode off the market overnight with potential plans to ...

A formal Mass to mark the inauguration of Pope Leo XIV will take place on May 18 in St. Peter's Square, the Vatican announced the day after stunning the world with the election of the first pope ...

Whereas the name Leo XIV promises, perhaps, some version of the “peace” that the former Cardinal Robert Prevost invoked in his first words from the papal loggia — peace between the church ...

As a result, Leo had a prominence going into the conclave that few other cardinals have.One aspect that some thought would work against him, however, is that he’s American. Given the ...

AND SURE ENOUGH, IT WAS POPE LEO THE 14TH. MAKING HISTORY THURSDAY AS THE FIRST EVER POPE FROM THE UNITED STATES. IT WAS LIKE I HAD NO WORDS. I STARTED CRYING. WHITE SMOKE POURING FROM THE CHIMNEY ...