the Chrism Mass is a real, “For you, I am a bishop; with you, I am a Christian,” moment for any pastor of any diocesan flock, one not lost on Leo XIV in his first celebration of the Mass as leader of...

The last pontiff to carry the Cross for the entire fourteen-station Way of the Cross procession was Pope St. John Paul II.

On Good Friday, Pope Leo XIV held phone conversations with the presidents of Israel and Ukraine, stressing the need to pursue paths of peaceful dialogue to end the conflicts ravaging each nation.