Pope Leo XIV gave his first Sunday blessing in St. Peter’s Square, calling for peace on Earth in his second large-scale address to the faithful. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — For thousands of Catholic pilgrims in Rome, it’s the unmissable Vatican appointment: the midday Sunday blessing the pope delivers from a window overlooking St. Peter’s ...

John's son - but you shall be called Peter, the rock!" John 1:42 Some Christians deny that the Pope, as successor of St. Peter, has any special authoritative role in the Church founded by Christ.

The crowd started pouring into the Vatican hours before the marching bands arrived and the pope walked through the dark red drapes of the balcony in the middle of the facade of St. Peter’s ...

Tens of thousands of people packed St. Peter’s Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign. They cheered him on as he ...

St. Peter's Abbey was founded in 696, making it one of the oldest monasteries in the German-speaking region. It includes St. Peter's Church, Friedhof St. Peter (a cemetery), the oldest library in ...

Whoops, Waves, Tears: Faithful React to Pope Leo's First Sunday Blessing in St. Peter's Square VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter's Square to watch ...

Peter was declared a martyr and beatified in 1889. Pope Pius XII canonized him in 1954. Within a few years of Saint Peter Chanel’s death, most of the island of Futuna had converted to Catholicism.

Pope Leo XIV has called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release of ...

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.

Tens of thousands of people packed St. Peter’s Square when Pope Benedict XVI gave his final Sunday prayer in 2013 before becoming the first pope in 600 years to resign.

FILE: Newly elected Pope Robert Francis Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in The Vatican ...