The pope has contracted a cold and will skip his usual outdoor Sunday prayer, instead giving the blessing indoors just days ahead of his Christmas Eve and Day Masses, the Vatican said Saturday.

Pope Francis was no longer using a mechanical ventilator and remained stable in the hospital on Sunday, though his clinical prognosis remains "guarded," the Vatican said in a statement as the 88 ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, where he delivered his first Sunday blessing to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, on May 11.

Pope Leo XIV speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica from where he delivered his first Sunday blessing since his election to the faithful gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the ...

The new pope called for peace in Ukraine and Gaza in his first Sunday noon blessing. ‘Never again war,’ Leo XIV declared to the masses gathered below his balcony of St Peter’s Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV gives first Sunday address, calls for peace in Ukraine and Gaza 02:27. Pope Leo XIV called for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza with the release ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first Sunday blessing as pope and called for peace in the Ukraine-Russia ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first Sunday blessing in St. Peter’s Square, calling for peace on Earth in his second large-scale address to the faithful. “I, too, address the world’s great powers by ...

Pope Leo XIV speaks from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica from where he delivered his first Sunday blessing since his election to the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square for the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter's Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday blessing of his pontificate exactly at noon.