A large crowd of people assembled in St Peter’s Square waiting to pray with Pope Leo XIV on Mother's Day, in honor of his first Sunday blessing as pontiff.

Pope Leo also celebrated Mother’s Day as jubilee bands and thousands of pilgrims created a festive atmosphere in St. Peter’s ...

The last time he stood on the same velvet-draped ledge, the fragrant scent of white smoke was still hanging in the air and ...

Addressing hundreds of thousands of people from the balcony of ... Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd as he delivers the Regina Caeli prayer from the main central loggia of St Peter's basilica ...

He told the crowd ... singing the prayer. The prayer is one of four Marian antiphons, or prayers to the Virgin Mary, which is said throughout the Easter season. About 100,000 people were gathered ...