Pope Leo XIV, a tennis enthusiast, met with top-ranked player Jannik Sinner at the Vatican, seemingly burying the hatchet after a playful jab about Sinner's name. Sinner gifted the Pope a racket and jokingly suggested a match.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift of free speech and the press” in an audience with some of the 6,000 journalists who descended on Rome to cover his election as the first American pontiff.

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets nominations