All posts tagged "The Vatican"

President Donald Trump gave his congratulations to the new pope, an American from Chicago, who has taken the name Pope Leo XIV.

On Truth Social, Trump posted that he was looking forward to meeting the Holy Father.

"Congratulations to Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, who was just named Pope," Trump wrote. "It is such an honor to realize that he is the first American Pope. What excitement, and what a Great Honor for our Country. I look forward to meeting Pope Leo XIV. It will be a very meaningful moment!"...

JD Vance is taking divine inspiration from meeting Pope Francis just hours before the pontiff died following a prolonged illness and hospitalization.

The vice president sat down with Fox News Digital for an exclusive interview on his takeaways from the "very gracious meeting" with the pope.

Vance, who converted to Catholicism in 2019, was visiting the Vatican for Easter but said he "didn’t plan to see the Holy Father because he was ill."...

White smoke was seen rising over the Vatican on Wednesday, signaling the election of a new pope following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI as head of the Catholic Church and spiritual figurehead to 1.2 billion people around the world.

The Vatican is under pressure to help resolve one of the strangest of many enigmas lingering in Italy from the cold war years.

CHICAGO — A civil lawsuit launched in the United States seeking to tie the Vatican and the Pope to an alleged decades-long cover-up of clergy sex abuse has been dropped, the plaintiff's lawyer said.