President Donald Trump's dismissal of Pope Leo XIV as "weak" and "wrong" marked an unprecedented personal attack on a pontiff by a US leader that capped months of tension.
Pope Leo lashed out against warmongers on Saturday while calling on billions of people around the globe to embrace peace and "believe once again in love, moderation and good politics".
Pope Leo XIV and French President Emmanuel Macron stressed the need for dialogue in the Middle East in their first meeting Friday at the Vatican, while also finding time to chat about basketball.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrived Thursday in Rome on the eve of his first meeting with Pope Leo XIV, almost one year after the election of the US pontiff.
Pope Leo XIV presiding over the mass outside Rome on Sunday, a highlight of the Catholic Church's Jubilee year
The mass was held in a vast, open-air space on Rome's eastern outskirts
Young Catholics came from around the world for the Vatican's week-long Jubilee of Youth where Pope Leo XIV spoke Sunday
Pope Leo XIV presided over a final mass in Rome for over one million young people on Sunday, the culmination of a pilgrimage that has drawn Ca…
Up to a million pilgrims are expected to take part in a giant mass with Pope Leo XIV as part of the Vatican's 'Jubilee of Youth'
Spanish was one of the main languages heard on the streets of the Italian capital