The process of choosing a new Pope is shrouded in secrecy, as the cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel until a new ...

Bookies and AI alike failed to correctly determine the next pope - Cardinal Robert Prevost, known as Pope Leo XIV - but a ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s ...

Nobody does drama like the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church,” said Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, ...

Catholic cardinals gathered at the Vatican this week to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21.

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...

Cardinal electors begin voting for new pope in Vatican 2025 conclave, as world waits for signal of white smoke.

Who would have thought that Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle’s “first act of charity” to then cardinal, now Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost would be giving him a candy? And it’s not just the new pope ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have midday ...

Villanova University junior Caroline Pirtle knew Cardinal Robert F. Prevost could be the next pope, and she was pulling for him. In fact, she says, she had a hunch it would be him. As one of a handful ...