Vatican releases first Pope Leo postage stamps May 27, 2025By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News A Vatican stamp featuring Pope Leo XIV is seen in this image released May 27, 2025. (CNS photo/courtesy of Vatican stamp and coin office) VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican postal service began selling its first Pope Leo XIV stamps May 27 and offered a special cancellation of the postage featuring a line drawing of the new pope waving to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square. Two of the stamps, with values of 1.25 euros ($1.42) and 2.45 euros ($2.78), feature photos taken of Pope Leo May 8 when he appeared on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica immediately after his election. The other two, with values of 1.30 euros ($1.48) and 3.20 euros ($3.63), are close-up photos of the pope taken May 9 when he celebrated Mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of Cardinals. The Vatican post office said it was printing 390,000 of the stamps, which have his name in Latin across the top, “Leone PP. XIV,” and in smaller print along the side “Anno I S.P. MMXXV,” a notation that 2025 is the first year of his pontificate. Read More Vatican News Pope Leo XIV names Archbishop Caccia papal ambassador to United States Vatican hosted its own mini Paralympics half a century before Games’ official start Historian reflects on Michelangelo’s ‘Last Judgement’ with Sistine Chapel restoration underway Pope Leo XIV meets with authors of book on Latin Mass in U.S. Pope Leo XIV prays for leaders to ‘abandon projects of death’ in peace prayer video Vatican theological commission warns of replacing God with ‘a world governed by machines’ Copyright © 2025 Catholic News Service/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Print
