Panama City welcomed newly elected Mayor Allan Branch, Commissioner Robbie Hughes and returning Commissioner Josh Street.

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SALT LAKE CITY — Elder Matthew S. Holland represented The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Mass of Inauguration for Pope Leo XIV on Sunday at the Vatican.Elder Holland, of the ...

Pope Leo XIV waves as he arrives in the Popemobile ahead of the inauguration Mass at St. Peter's Square on May 18, 2025, in Vatican City. Sean Gallup—Getty Images The crowds packed into St ...

Deepest of all the symbolism was Pope Leo’s visit to a tomb before the inauguration Mass to venerate ... s ring” made for him as a sign of his office. Credit: AP While Pope Francis departed ...

An open-topped popemobile had driven Leo on Sunday morning through St. Peter's Square, where about 100,000 people had gathered to catch a glimpse of him, according to the Vatican's press office.

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Once the world knew the new pontiff’s name (and nationality), the next question inevitably became: When is the papal inauguration? While there is no fixed rule requiring a certain gap between ...

Pope Francis’s inauguration in 2013 drew 31 heads of state and 132 official delegations from national governments or international organisations. And John Paul II’s funeral in 2005 assembled ...

Here are key symbols and steps of the Mass, based on the Vatican's official liturgical book (published in Italian), the "Order of Rites for the Inauguration ... of the Petrine office, the pontiff ...