US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were among the tens of thousands of people streaming into St. Peter’s Square for the formal installation service of history’s first American pope.
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Arrivals for the investiture mass of Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican

US Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were among the tens of thousands of people streaming into St. Peter’s Square for the formal installation service of history’s first American pope.
 
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