August 18, 2025
August 17, 2025

In photos: Pope Leo's first 100 days

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MAY 7: Cardinal Robert Prevost, centre, attends a mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff, prior to the start of the conclave. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
May 8: Newly elected Pope Robert Francis Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave. The first pope from the United States,  he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.  (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 8: In his first address from the central loggia of St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV opened with the words “Peace be with all of you,” invoking the greeting of the risen Christ and expressing his wish for that peace to touch hearts, families, and nations. Drawing on his Augustinian roots, he quoted St Augustine’s words, “With you I am a Christian, and for you I am a bishop.”
Cardinals react from a balcony of the St Peter's Basilica, as the new pope makes his first appearance. 133 Cardinals took place in the conclave, meaning Leo needed a minimum of 89 votes. 5 were created Cardinal by Pope Saint John Paul II, 20 were created by Pope Benedict and 108 by Pope Francis. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
Louis Prevost, brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, reenacts his reaction after he saw his brother on television, during an AFP interview outside his home in Port Charlotte, Florida, on May 9, 2025. Pope Leo XIV and his two older brothers were raised in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.The Prevost family lived on the city’s southwest side, where all three brothers attended local Catholic schools before Robert entered the Augustinian order. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: Father Ramiro Castillo (C), vicar superior of the Augustinians of the North, and friars pose as they hold pictures of Pope Leo XIV in the room where the new pope lived between 1988 and 1998 at the Augustine convent Santo Tomas de Villanueva in Trujillo, in northern Peru. (Photo by STEFFANO PALOMINO/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: US cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich, US cardinal Joseph William Tobin, US cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan and US cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo attend a press conference of US cardinals, a day after the new pope's election, at the North American College in Rome. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: Craftsman Gennaro Di Virgili paints the finishing touches of a statue of newly elected Pope Leo XIV at his shop in San Gregorio Armeno Alley, a street where craftsmen of traditional Napolitan Christmas Crib figurines have workshops, in Naples. (Photo by CARLO HERMANN/AFP via Getty Images)
May 11: Pope Leo XIV delivers his first Regina Caeli address from the main central loggia balcony of St Peter's basilica. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 12: Pope Leo XIV shakes the hands and greets people of the press after an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. The audience with journalists has become a tradition among newly elected popes. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
MAY 17: U.S Vice President JD Vance, and second lady Usha Vance are greeted upon arrival for the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV by Bruno Pasquino, chief of protocol, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, monsignor Christopher Washington, head of English section, Holy See Secretariat, and Laura Hochla, foreign service officer for the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport.  (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)
May 18: Queen Letizia of Spain at her seat ahead of the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
May 18: Clergy at their seats during the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
May 18: Pope Leo XIV preside over his Inauguration Mass in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
May 18: Pope Leo XIV greets crowds at his Inauguration Mass. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
May 20: Pope Leo XIV visits the Tomb of St. Paul at the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls in Rome (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
May 21: Pope Leo XIV greets bishops at the end of his first weekly general audience at St Peter's Square. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
May 25: Pope Leo XIV receives the homage of the Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri and the City of Rome at the townhall. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 1: Pope Leo XIV, flanked by Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, addresses the pack of cyclists passing by the Vatican during the 21st and last stage of the 108th Giro d'Italia cycling race. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 7: Pope Leo XIV speaks during a Pentecost vigil prayer at St Peter's Square. (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 27: Pope Leo XIV leads a mass at St Peter's basilica as part of the Jubilee of Priests (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
July 6: Pope Leo XIV greets people as he arrives for a two-week stay in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo,. He revives a long-standing papal tradition paused under Francis, as Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome a pope for the first time in over a decade. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
July 9: Pope Leo XIV leads the Mass for the Care of Creation in Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by YARA NARDI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
July 9: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Pope Leo XIV wave from a balcony as they meet at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
July 27: Back in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the Angelus prayer. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
August 2: Pope Leo XIV holds the cross as he arrives in Rome's eastern Tor Vergata neighbourhood for a prayer vigil before Sunday Mass as part of the Jubilee of Youth. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
August 2: Pope Leo XIV leads Eucharistic Adoration on the occasion of the Youth Jubilee, in Tor Vergata, on the outskirts of Rome. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
August 6: Pope Leo XIV receives a wooden figurine from a child as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
August 13: Pope Leo XIV poses with nuns following the general audience in the Paul VI Hall. Pope Leo XIV's General Audience is held in the Paul VI Hall due to the extreme Roman heat. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
August 15: Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Pontifical Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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MAY 7: Cardinal Robert Prevost, centre, attends a mass for the election of the Roman Pontiff, prior to the start of the conclave. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
May 8: Newly elected Pope Robert Francis Prevost arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave. The first pope from the United States,  he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff, taking the papal name Leo XIV.  (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 8: In his first address from the central loggia of St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV opened with the words “Peace be with all of you,” invoking the greeting of the risen Christ and expressing his wish for that peace to touch hearts, families, and nations. Drawing on his Augustinian roots, he quoted St Augustine’s words, “With you I am a Christian, and for you I am a bishop.”
Cardinals react from a balcony of the St Peter's Basilica, as the new pope makes his first appearance. 133 Cardinals took place in the conclave, meaning Leo needed a minimum of 89 votes. 5 were created Cardinal by Pope Saint John Paul II, 20 were created by Pope Benedict and 108 by Pope Francis. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
Louis Prevost, brother of newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, reenacts his reaction after he saw his brother on television, during an AFP interview outside his home in Port Charlotte, Florida, on May 9, 2025. Pope Leo XIV and his two older brothers were raised in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.The Prevost family lived on the city’s southwest side, where all three brothers attended local Catholic schools before Robert entered the Augustinian order. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: Father Ramiro Castillo (C), vicar superior of the Augustinians of the North, and friars pose as they hold pictures of Pope Leo XIV in the room where the new pope lived between 1988 and 1998 at the Augustine convent Santo Tomas de Villanueva in Trujillo, in northern Peru. (Photo by STEFFANO PALOMINO/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: US cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich, US cardinal Joseph William Tobin, US cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan and US cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo attend a press conference of US cardinals, a day after the new pope's election, at the North American College in Rome. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 9: Craftsman Gennaro Di Virgili paints the finishing touches of a statue of newly elected Pope Leo XIV at his shop in San Gregorio Armeno Alley, a street where craftsmen of traditional Napolitan Christmas Crib figurines have workshops, in Naples. (Photo by CARLO HERMANN/AFP via Getty Images)
May 11: Pope Leo XIV delivers his first Regina Caeli address from the main central loggia balcony of St Peter's basilica. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
May 12: Pope Leo XIV shakes the hands and greets people of the press after an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. The audience with journalists has become a tradition among newly elected popes. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
MAY 17: U.S Vice President JD Vance, and second lady Usha Vance are greeted upon arrival for the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV by Bruno Pasquino, chief of protocol, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, monsignor Christopher Washington, head of English section, Holy See Secretariat, and Laura Hochla, foreign service officer for the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See, at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport.  (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin-Pool/Getty Images)
May 18: Queen Letizia of Spain at her seat ahead of the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
May 18: Clergy at their seats during the Inauguration Mass of Pope Leo XIV in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
May 18: Pope Leo XIV preside over his Inauguration Mass in St Peter's Square. (Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images)
May 18: Pope Leo XIV greets crowds at his Inauguration Mass. (Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images)
May 20: Pope Leo XIV visits the Tomb of St. Paul at the Basilica of Saint Paul outside the Walls in Rome (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
May 21: Pope Leo XIV greets bishops at the end of his first weekly general audience at St Peter's Square. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
May 25: Pope Leo XIV receives the homage of the Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri and the City of Rome at the townhall. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 1: Pope Leo XIV, flanked by Sister Raffaella Petrini, President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State, addresses the pack of cyclists passing by the Vatican during the 21st and last stage of the 108th Giro d'Italia cycling race. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 7: Pope Leo XIV speaks during a Pentecost vigil prayer at St Peter's Square. (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
June 27: Pope Leo XIV leads a mass at St Peter's basilica as part of the Jubilee of Priests (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
July 6: Pope Leo XIV greets people as he arrives for a two-week stay in the summer papal estate in Castel Gandolfo,. He revives a long-standing papal tradition paused under Francis, as Castel Gandolfo prepares to welcome a pope for the first time in over a decade. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
July 9: Pope Leo XIV leads the Mass for the Care of Creation in Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by YARA NARDI/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
July 9: Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and Pope Leo XIV wave from a balcony as they meet at the papal residence of Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
July 27: Back in the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV addresses the crowd from the window of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St. Peter's square during the Angelus prayer. (Photo by ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Images)
August 2: Pope Leo XIV holds the cross as he arrives in Rome's eastern Tor Vergata neighbourhood for a prayer vigil before Sunday Mass as part of the Jubilee of Youth. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
August 2: Pope Leo XIV leads Eucharistic Adoration on the occasion of the Youth Jubilee, in Tor Vergata, on the outskirts of Rome. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
August 6: Pope Leo XIV receives a wooden figurine from a child as he arrives to lead his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square at the Vatican. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
August 13: Pope Leo XIV poses with nuns following the general audience in the Paul VI Hall. Pope Leo XIV's General Audience is held in the Paul VI Hall due to the extreme Roman heat. (Photo by FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images)
August 15: Pope Leo XIV celebrates a Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Pontifical Parish of St. Thomas of Villanova in Castel Gandolfo. (Photo by MARIA GRAZIA PICCIARELLA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

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