Robert Prevost has been elected the first North American pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. After he was unveiled as the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, he spoke to huge crowds from the ...

Roughly an hour and 10 minutes from Ramstein Air Base by car, it’s a veritable monument to a 15th-century native son named ...

Joe Donnelly, the former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, spoke to CFR about the process of picking a new pope and how the ...

When a new pope is chosen, a different combination is used to create white smoke, the traditional signal that “Habemus Papam” ...

Cardinals from 70 countries have gathered at the Vatican to elect a new Pope in the most diverse conclave in history.

Choosing a replacement for Pope Francis is a secretive and time-tested process for the cardinal-electors in the Sistine ...

Cardinals from all over the world will gather in conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis. There were 135 ...

As the papal conclave nears, people in Italy turn to an online game for some possible outcomes. The goal is to exchange glory ...

Taking the estimated number of Catholics in a country and dividing them by the number of cardinal-electors gives some idea of ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s ... will in his statement suggests that the letters were the tipping point that convinced him to withdraw from the vote.

A reporter for a satirical Italian television program repeatedly asked whether an Italian cardinal ... of the globe whom Francis named over his 12-year papacy to bring in new points of views ...

Final mourners were in a queue for their last chance to see Pope Francis’s remains – as a UK cardinal predicted the ... joining dignitaries from across the globe. Tens of thousands of members ...