Pope Leo XIV prays as Norwegian Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim leads the final day of the Roman Curia's annual ...

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Pope Leo XIV has already restored several customs from recent pontificates that Francis had set aside. The Pallium Mass for new archbishops on the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul returned last June, ...

Pope Leo XIV has opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday. He is lamenting the “ashes of ...

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Pope Leo XIV marked the beginning of Lent with the traditional procession on Rome's Aventine Hill on Ash Wednesday.

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV opened the church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over Ash Wednesday and lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” that have been left by today’s wars ...