Jewish leaders got front seats at Pope Leo XIV’s inauguration Mass. An American rabbi there, and other Jewish representatives, saw that and other gestures from Leo as hopeful signs for upswing of Catholic-Jewish relations under the first U.

Tens of thousands of people streamed into St. Peter's Square early Sunday to inaugurate Pope Leo XIV 's pontificate, joining presidents and princes in celebrating history's first American pope with a...

Leo officially opened his pontificate by taking his first popemobile tour through the piazza, a rite of passage that has become synonymous with the papacy’s global reach and mediatic draw.