Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - The newly elected Pontiff showed his grasp of the situation in the first homily of his pontificate, on Friday morning, preaching to a congregation of the cardinals who had elected him: A lack of faith is often tragically accompanied by the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity, the crisis of the family and so many other wounds that afflict our society.

By Frances Martel, Breitbart - Pope Leo XIV delivered his first homily, a sermon in the Catholic liturgy, on Friday morning after being chosen by the College of Cardinals as the successor to St. Peter the Apostle on May 8... The former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost of Chicago emerged from the Conclave on Thursday as Pope Leo XIV and offered brief words on Thursday of gratitude. His homily on Friday is the first major public address he has offered since becoming the first American pope... Below, the full text of the homily as translated by the Vatican: I will begin with a word in English, and the rest is in Italian. ......

By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - For Catholics, the new pope’s disposition toward the Latin Mass will tell us far more about his pontificate than his views on immigration... It didn’t take long after Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, emerged onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday as the new leader of the Catholic Church for social media commentators on the right to begin decrying him as “Francis 2.0.”