The meeting took place at the Vatican, where recently elected Pope Leo XIV greeted visitors for blessings. The Pokémon ...

The fan who was visiting on July 5 from the Diocese of Copenhagen recounted what went down in a message to Polygon: How I’d ...

A Pokémon card signed by Pope Leo XIV has gone viral, sparking a frenzy in the card collecting community. Featuring a Popplio ...

Since Pope Leo XIV was elected, Pokemon fans had some fun with the Popplio meme, which saw the seal-looking water-type ...

A young Catholic made the pope's day after the leader of the Church signed a card of a Pokémon sharing nearly the same name ...

On Saturday, Pope Leo XIV welcomed visitors from across Europe and the U.K., including a group of young people from the ...

Pope Leo XIV blessed and autographed a Pokémon card for a Danish pilgrim, making him the first pontiff known to do so. The ...

"I introduced it as Popplio because it sounds like Pope Leo," ReptileCake wrote on reddit earlier this week. "He laughed, ...

Despite the card immediately gaining a significant amount of worth, ReptileCake says that he has no intention of selling it ...

We already knew Pope Leo XIV was a gamer, but now we know he’s also the first to have definitely touched a Pokémon card. But not just any card. In posts that blew up on Reddit over the weekend ...

The other copy, meanwhile, he asked the pope to sign with a half-working Bic biro — the only pen ReptileCake belatedly realised he had with him. Happily, Pope Leo XIV agreed.

Added the Popplio/Pope Leo XIV card owner: “I don’t want to grade it, it’s just a funny joke that his Holiness indulged in with me, that’s worth more than any monetary value can satisfy.” ...