Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of Our Lady of Pompei ...

One that really got to me was I was praying with one resident and she said to me after we were done praying, ‘That’s the ...

whose veneration is central to Catholics from the pope to the ordinary faithful. Even many of the less-than-devout know what it means to throw a Hail Mary.

GENAZZANO, Italy — Pope Leo XIV closed his first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary ... back stopped to pray by Pope Francis’ tomb in the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome.