"I would like that our first great desire be for a united church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world," he said.

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.