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Vatican News is a service provided by the Holy See's Dicastery for Communication. Follow us for news about Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican, and the Church.

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Apr 21, 2025
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
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May 8, 2025
White smoke! The 133 Cardinal electors gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected the new Pope. He will appear soon at the central window of St. Peter’s Basilica.
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May 8, 2025
Habemus Papam! We have a Pope! The Cardinals gathered in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel have elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as the 267th Pope, who took the name Pope Leo XIV.
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May 8, 2025
I announce to you a great joy; we have a Pope: The Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord, Lord Robert Francis Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Prevost who has taken the name Leo XIV. Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti announces that the Cardinals have elected Cardinal Robert
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Dec 31, 2022
“With sorrow I inform you that the Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away today at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican. Further information will be provided as soon as possible.”
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May 10, 2025
Pope Leo XIV prays at the tomb of his predecessor Pope Francis.
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May 10, 2025
Pope Leo XIV explains his choice of name: "... I chose to take the name Leo XIV. There are different reasons for this, but mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.
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May 9, 2025
Pope Leo XIV enters the Sistine Chapel to celebrate Mass with the cardinals.
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May 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV greets the world for the first time to grant his Urbi et Orbi blessing. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected as the 267th Successor of Peter by the 133 Cardinal electors on Thursday, May 8.
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May 9, 2025
Newly elected Pope Leo XIV began his first homily with words in English during Mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals.
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May 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV appears on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to greet the faithful for the first time as the 267th Pope.
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May 8, 2025
Pope Leo XIV embraces each of the Cardinal electors just after he accepts his election to become the 267th Pope.
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Apr 26, 2025
Scenes from the Requiem Mass for Pope Francis