The 69-year-old Augustinian missionary, elected in a 24-hour conclave last week, called for journalists to use words for ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Here's what we know. Pope Leo's Dolton home quickly removed from market The Dolton home, located at ...

At this early stage of Leo XIV’s pontificate, the text is a “must read” for Catholics. Here are three notable takeaways.

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

All 133 cardinals eligible to elect Pope Francis’s successor have arrived in Rome for the conclave. They will take their ...

The 2025 conclave is less predictable than ever after Francis shook up the Catholic Church during his years as pope. More ...

Under church rules, it must start 15 to 20 days after a pope's death; Francis died on April 21. Ahead of the conclave, Vatican officials and employees who will help support the process ...

The conclave to appoint a successor to the late Pope Francis had been mired in controversy over the status of disgraced ...

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even through his final weeks.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced as the next pope, becoming the first American leader of the Catholic Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV visited the tomb of his predecessor Francis on Saturday to pray for the man he follows as the head of the ...