Pope Leo XIV opened the Catholic church’s penitential Lenten season by presiding over the Ash Wednesday Mass in Rome.

Pope Leo lamented a world "in flames" due to wars and the destruction of the environment during an Ash Wednesday Mass, ...

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

Pope Leo XIV presided over Ash Wednesday, lamenting the “ashes of international law and justice” destroyed by global ...

How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.

Pope Leo inaugurated the Lenten season Wednesday lamenting the various “structures of sin” that exist in the world and encouraging believers to live embrace the period as a time of conversion.

Beneath the Roman pines of the Aventine Hill, Pope Leo XIV led a solemn penitential procession Feb. 18 to Rome's oldest extant basilica, marking the first Ash Wednesday of his pontificate.

On Ash Wednesday, Pope Leo XIV encouraged Catholics to ask the Lord for “the gift of true conversion” at the start of the ...

During his first Ash Wednesday as pope, Leo framed Lent as a communal reckoning with personal and structural sin.

Pope Leo rejects Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invite and backs UN to solve global crises - Vatican says it has concerns about ...

"As we journey through a world marked by division, let us ask the Lord to continue to guide his Church in the mission of sanctification and reconciliation." ...