Pope Leo XIV
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Europe
More than a million people expected to see pope on France visit
Pope Leo is spending four intense days in Paris, the Catholic shrine at Lourdes and the northeastern city of Metz.
Latin America
Pope Leo XIV will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru in his first Latin American trip as pontiff
The trip will include a stop in Peru, where Leo spent decades as a missionary, church leader and bishop before becoming pope.
Italy
FOR SUBSCRIBERSPope Leo tells NBC News his ancestors included immigrants, enslaved people and slaveholders
The pontiff said the “sense of freedom, the sense of opportunity” are what make him love America in a discussion with “NBC Nightly News” anchor Tom Llamas. 
A future pope will ‘welcome us back’, says priest from excommunicated sect
The group has endured a rupture with the Vatican before, having been excommunicated in the 1980s but welcomed back by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
Pope calls on U.S. to protect immigrants in message marking America’s birthday
Receiving immigrants with compassion and generosity is “a recognition of the dignity that belongs to every human person,” the Chicago-born pontiff said in the message.
FOR SUBSCRIBERSWho are the ultratraditionalists rebelling against Pope Leo?
The Society of St. Pius X was founded in opposition to the modernizing reforms of the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II.
Vatican responds aggressively to society that defied pope, excommunicating its bishops
The Society of St. Pius X, which opposes the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church, consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.
Defying Pope Leo XIV and risking schism, traditionalists go ahead with Latin Mass consecrations
Consecrating a bishop without the pope’s consent amounts to a schismatic act, or an intentional rupture of the unity of the Catholic Church.
Pope begs breakaway traditionalist group to back off plan to consecrate its own bishops
Under church law, the consecrations are a schismatic act and incur automatic excommunication for the four bishops and the bishop administering the consecration.
Spain
Pope Leo blesses Barcelona’s towering architectural masterpiece
Antoni Gaudí, dubbed “God’s architect,” designed the Sagrada Família, and was put on the path to sainthood by Leo’s predecessor, Pope Francis.
Spain
Pope Leo XIV to hold Mass at world’s tallest church
The pontiff’s visit to the church is timed to coincide with the centenary of the death of legendary Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí.
