"I appeal to responsibility and reason." "No country should ever threaten the existence of another." In St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Leo XIV, the day after Iranian missiles hit Tel Aviv and

The new Pope Leo XIV called for peace around the world in his first Pentecost address on Sunday. Speaking to tens of thousands of people in St Peter's Square, the first US-born head of the Catholic Church emphasized that peace must come from the heart.

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.