The Catholic church on Sunday will inaugurate the first American and second Latin American pope.

Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s installation in Vatican City.

The other symbolically important moment of the Mass is the representational rite of obedience to Leo: Whereas in the past all cardinals would vow obedience to the new pope, more recent papal ...

Leo will start the day by taking his first tour through the piazza in the popemobile. The open-topped vehicle has become ...

Pope Leo XIV is officially opening his pontificate in a ceremony on Sunday that blends ancient ritual, evocative symbols and ...

Pope Leo XIV ’s inauguration Mass on Sunday morning in St. Peter’s Square and Basilica is a ritual filled with symbolism that ...

This will be Leo's opportunity to lay out the type of pope he will be. But these solemn religious ceremonies are also huge ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will celebrate his inaugural mass on Sunday, ...

Pope Leo XIV will receive a wide range of gifts and benefits during his inauguration in Vatican City this Sunday ...

Sunday's mass will mark the official start of Pope Leo's papacy. He is expected to ride through the square in the popemobile for the first time.

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, will be formally inaugurated on Sunday with a mass in St. Peter’s Square.

As a missionary and bishop in Peru, the future Pope Leo came face-to-face with one of the most serious and far-reaching ...