Pope Leo XIV greets visitors and pilgrims from the popemobile as he rides around St. Peter's Square at the Vatican before his weekly general audience June 4, 2025.

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Urquidi, who was among the lay delegates attending the Synod of Bishops, was in the same group as the future pope and saw firsthand Pope Leo's modus operandi. "He doesn't just want to listen, and that ...

A view of the funeral of Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Tens of thousands flocked before dawn to the Vatican.

Leo was first appointed a bishop by Francis in 2015 and then chosen by the late pope to take up a senior Vatican role two years ago. He has frequently praised his predecessor in his first weeks.

Dean of the College of Cardinals Giovanni Battista Re spreads incense around the coffin of Pope Francis during his funeral in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.

The project, Borgo Laudato Si, commemorates Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ on care of the environment, and aims to promote education in integral ecology and sustainable practices ...

Pope Francis greets Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar, after an interreligious meeting at the Founder’s Memorial in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on Feb. 4, 2019 ...

But Pope Francis’ 2021 decree changed that radically, abrogating Summorum Pontificum, mandating priests to obtain their bishop’s permission and, since 2023, obliging bishops to obtain express ...

It confirmed that Leo, the first U.S. pope, had spoken by telephone to Putin in the afternoon of June 4. The readout of the call was unusual for the Vatican, which does not always issue statements ...

Pope Leo XIV “is the man the church and the world need right now” and his greatest challenge, “the one he’ll carry most in his heart, is peace in the world.” ...

With his death April 21, Pope Francis marked yet another first in the history of the Catholic Church: he became the first pope to open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica without living to ...