Pope Leo XIV Promotes Message Of Unity
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV took his first popemobile ride through St. Peter’s Square ahead of his installation on Sunday, waving from the back of the open-back truck to the crowd waving flags and cheering “Viva il Papa!”
Presiding over a Mass in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, Leo was inaugurated as the first American pope, in a ceremony filled with ancient and symbolic rituals.
Pope Leo XIV, the 267th pope and history's first US-born pontiff, celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel on May 9, 2025. The Chicago-born Augustinian missionary, Robert Prevost, was elected on Thursday afternoon after a two-thirds majority vote ...