Watch the Vatican’s Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and Christmas Day Mass live from St. Peter’s Basilica. Here’s how and when to stream both services.

Tuning in on December 24 to watch NBC's coverage of the Vatican's annual Christmas Eve mass is a tradition for millions of American families, and this year will see Pope Leo XIV preside over mass. The ...

In his first Christmas Eve homily as pope, Leo said that Christmas invites us to look below to “find the Savior” instead of upward.

This year, Pope Leo XIV will lead the Christmas celebrations at the Vatican for the first time, but the popular Christmas traditions at the heart of the Roman Catholic Church remain unchanged.

Thousands flocked to the Vatican to hear the first American Pope’s message on this Christmas. Pope Leo shared a message of gratitude and a mission of hope. NBC News’ Molly Hunter has that story.

Christmas 2025 marks the very first Christmas Pope Leo will be serving as pontiff for the traditional holiday mass.

Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV is celebrating his first Christmas as pontiff. Pope Leo thanked the crowds gathered at the Vatican as he presided over Christmas Mass. It's the first time since 1994 a pope ...

Pope Leo XIV will celebrate Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica on Christmas Day morning, Dec. 25 — a custom dating to the pontificate of St. John Paul II. The Vatican announced Tuesday Pope Leo’s Mass ...

"Where there is room for the human person, there is room for God," the pope said in his homily on Dec. 24 in St. Peter's Basilica.

Pope Leo XIV, during his first Christmas Day message, has urged the faithful to shed indifference toward those who are suffering.

VATICAN CITY(AP) — The Vatican unveiled its Nativity scene Monday and lit the 25-meter (82-foot) Christmas tree that towers above it in St. Peter’s Square as a band, chorus and dancers in traditional ...