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Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square shortly after his election on Thursday, May 8, 2025....

Vatican Media Pope Leo XIV gives the homily at Mass with the cardinale electors in the Sistine Chapel on May 9, 2025. The American...

Daniel Ibáñez/CNA Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square shortly after his election on Thursday, May 8, 2025. The ne...

Wikimedia Commons (L-R) Franciscan Father Sixtus O’Connor. Gen. Joseph Lawton Collins. Andrew Jackson Higgins. COMMENTARY: All wa...

Daniel Ibáñez Pope Leo XIV waves to the faithful on May 8, 2025. Efforts to discern in what ways Pope Leo XIV will be similar to a...

The Sisters of Life talk to Cardinal Robert Prevost, who was elected pope on May 8, 2025, in September 2023. ‘His prayer was for pea...

Daniel Ibañez/CNA Michael Warsaw, CEO of EWTN. 'On behalf of the global EWTN family, I want to assure Pope Leo of our prayers as h...

Pope Leo XIV offers his first blessing on May 8, 2025. He is the first pope from the United States and from North America.

Daniel Ibañez Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims in St. Peter’s Square shortly after his election on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Bishops took...

Pope Leo XIV appears for the first time after his election on May 8, 2025. An Augustinian and a canon lawyer, he spent over a decade...

Daniel Ibáñez Pope Leo XIV waves to pilgrims in St. Pete’s Square shortly after his election on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Recalling t...

TIZIANA FABI Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Prevost in Chicago, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. P...

Screenshot Cardinal Robert Prevost greets thousands gathered in Vatican Square, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The Catholic Church...

EWTN News White smoke pours from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel announcing the news of a new pope on May 8, 2025. We await t...

Daniel Ibañez/CNA Indian Cardinal George Jacob Koovakad of the Syro-Malabar Church, official of the Secretariat of State and organizer of...

Jeffrey Bruno The Vatican quiet in the evening with cardinals inside during Conclave 2025 on May 7, 2025. ANALYSIS: Three of the...

Imperial War Museums Winston Churchill waves to crowds in Whitehall in London as they celebrate VE Day, 8 May 1945. COMMENTARY: Th...

Daniel Ibanez Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are gathering on the first day of the concla...

Gustave Doré, “Jacob Wrestles the Angel,” 1866 OLD TESTAMENT & ART: The story of Jacob’s wrestling match reminds every believer: spi...

Daniel Ibáñez Members of the College of Cardinals attend the Pro Eligendo Mass Wednesday morning in St. Peter’s Basilica. The pre-...

Daniel Ibáñez An image of Carlo Acutis was unveiled at his beatification Mass in Assisi, Italy Oct. 10, 2020. As the cardinals dis...

Pinecrest Academy Young ‘Pope David’ greets the faithful throughout the halls of Pinecrest Academy, along with his cardinals and security...

Cardinals process into the Sistine Chapel as the conclave to elect the 266th successor to St. Peter, the 267th pope, begins on May 7, 2025....

Daniel Ibáñez Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Dean of the College of Cardinals, presides over Wednesday’s Mass for the Election of the Roma...

Confessional EDITORIAL: It’s long-standing and settled law in the U.S. that priest-penitent discussions are privileged private commu...