In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the ...

Pope Leo XIV holds his first general audience in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday, issuing an appeal for Gaza, which he calls ...

I’M originally from Chicago, and when I travel, that fact has historically prompted responses such as “oh, like Michael ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the highest authority in the Catholic Church lives. Since 1870, more than a dozen ...

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

Cardinal-electors take an oath to maintain “absolute and perpetual secrecy” concerning “all matters directly or indirectly ...

The Modality for Choosing a Pope The election of a Pope, known as the papal conclave, is one of the most solemn and secretive ...

Heavy rainfall and storms have been battering southern France since Monday. The rains have caused widespread damage across ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV after cardinals from around the globe elected him to the papacy, making him the first US pope.