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Pope Leo XIV celebrates Mass May 11, 2025, at the altar near the tomb of St. Peter's in the grotto of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. Father Alejandro Moral Anton, prior general of the Order of St. Augustine, was the principal concelebrant. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Besides Leo XIII, 12 other popes have shared that name with new pontiff; 5 are saints
Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican as he leads, for the first time, the midday recitation of the "Regina Coeli" prayer May 11, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope Leo prays for vocations, for peace and for mothers on Mother's Day
Using sign language Franciscan Sister Veronica Donatella applauds Pope Leo XIV during a meeting with members of the media May 12, 2025, in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican. Sister Donatella provides Italian sign language interpretation for Vatican Media. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Pope thanks media, urges them to be peacemakers
Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
First American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad, Peru missionary, Vatican leader
Cardinals Blase J. Cupich of Chicago and Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, laugh during a news conference on the election of Pope Leo XIV at the Pontifical North American College in Rome May 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
Unity, not nationality led to Pope Leo's election, U.S. cardinals say
Pope Leo XIV gives his homily while celebrating his first Mass as pope with the cardinals who elected him in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican May 9, 2025. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
New pope calls for Christian witness in world that finds faith 'absurd'
The crowd waves Puerto Rican flags and other flags in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on the second day of the conclave as white smoke billows from the chimney indicating a new pope has been elected. (OSV News photo/Claudia Greco, Reuters)
Here's what happens after a new pope is elected
A man holding a rosary and U.S. flag reacts as Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo/Dylan Martinez, Reuters)
Trump, US political leaders congratulate Pope Leo XIV: 'A great honor for our country'
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who has chosen the papal name Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. He is the first American pope in history. (OSV News photo/Dylan Martinez, Reuters)
Chicago native Cardinal Prevost elected pope, takes name Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in Chicago. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Pope Leo XIV: Peacemaker and openness in an historic name
Pope Leo XIII is depicted in this official Vatican portrait. He laid the foundation for modern Catholic social teaching with his landmark 1891 encyclical "Rerum Novarum," addressing the rights and dignity of workers in the face of industrialization. (OSV News photo/Library of Congress)
Who was Pope Leo XIII, the father of social doctrine?
Ranking officers of the Vatican police and the Pontifical Swiss Guard place a beaded rope and seal on a Vatican office in the Apostolic Palace May 6, 2025. Buildings along the path cardinals may take from their residence to the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new pope have been sealed off. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Editors: Highest quality available.
As conclave begins, it's business as usual at the Vatican … sort of
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, subdean of the College of Cardinals, (left) and Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, concelebrate the Mass "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice" ("for the election of the Roman pontiff") in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 7, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Choose the pope the world needs, dean urges cardinals before conclave
Cardinals celebrate the Mass "Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice" ("for the election of the Roman pontiff") in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 7, 2025. (CNS photo/Pablo Esparza)
Conclave has most cardinals, widest geographical mix in history
Women react as black smoke billows from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel May 7, 2025, on the first day of the conclave. The black smoke indicated that cardinals did not elect a new pope. (OSV News photo/Eloisa Lopez, Reuters)
Conclave: First ballot fails to elect pope
Final work is being carried out to transform the popemobile used by Pope Francis during his 2014 Holy Land pilgrimage into a mobile health unit for the children of Gaza which will be ready for use once the humanitarian corridor is opened. In his final months, before his death April 21, 2025, the pope approved and blessed the project. (OSV News photo/courtesy Caritas Jerusalem) EDITORS: BEST QUALIT
Francis' final gift to Gaza: Popemobile will be transformed into mobile clinic for children
Workers on scaffolding May 2, 2025, attach the stove pipe to the stove that will be used to burn ballots during the conclave to elect a new pope in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Cardinals under the age of 80 will enter the conclave May 7. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Creation, Last Judgment, stoves: Workers ready Sistine Chapel for conclave 
Cardinals process at the beginning of the Mass on the nine days of official mourning for Pope Francis, at the Altar of the Confession in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 4, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
At final memorial Mass, Pope Francis remembered as tireless shepherd 
White smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on March 13, 2013, at the Vatican, signaling that Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis, was elected the 266th Roman Catholic pontiff. The cardinals will meet again on May 7, 2025, to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Where – and when – to watch for white smoke
Cardinals Luis José Rueda Aparicio of Bogotá, Colombia, left, and Rubén Salazar Gómez of Bogotá, right, approach the Petriano entrance of the Vatican next to St. Peter's Square to attend the seventh general congregation meeting of cardinals April 30, 2025. (CNS photo/Kendall McLaren)
Cardinals approve electors for conclave, formally ask for prayers
Then-Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory leads a special liturgy in renewing the consecration of the U.S. to the care of our Blessed Mother at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 1, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (OSV News photo/Tyler Orsburn)
May 1 marks 5th anniversary of consecrating US to Mary as COVID declared a pandemic
The conclave to elect a new pope, scheduled to begin May 7, is governed by two texts: a rule book and a prayer book.
How the conclave works: It's guided by a rule book and a prayer book
A close-up shows Cardinal Baldassare Reina, papal vicar of Rome, with his hands folded in prayer during the Mass on the third day of the "novendiali," nine days of mourning for Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican April 28, 2025. The Pontifical Missions Societies USA is inviting faithful to pray for a specific cardinal elector who will vote for the next pope in the conclave that begins in Rome May 7, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez)
Conclave prayer campaign for cardinals seeks to put 'faith into action'
Benedictine Abbot Donato Ogliari, abbot of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, center, offered a spiritual meditation April 29, 2025, in the Vatican synod hall to cardinals attending the general congregation before the conclave begins. The abbot is seated between Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, dean of the College of Cardinals, and Cardinal Kevin J. Farrell, chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Build communion with diversity, abbot tells cardinals before conclave
A group of pilgrims from Quito, Ecuador, poses for a picture as they approach St. Peter's Square during the Jubilee of Teenagers at the Vatican April 27, 2025. (CNS photo/Justin McLellan)
At Jubilee of Teenagers, grief is mingled with joyful hope for church's future
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