On Day 2, the cardinals will begin their day with a mass in the Pauline Chapel and then retreat to the Sistine Chapel for ...

The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers, were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

The late Pope Francis brought the 69-year-old to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop ...

On Thursday, May 8, a conclave took place in the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican. 133 cardinals from 71 countries gathered to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Americans are cheering for the new leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV, whose name is Robert Francis Prevost.

Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church. Cardinals gathered to select their latest leader during a conclave. White smoke poured out of the ...

A plume of white smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope has been selected following Francis’ death.

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday, signaling that a new pope has been elected. The decision ...

Robert Francis Prevost has become the first pope from the United States, picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected in a surprise choice to be the new leader of the Catholic Church, taking the name ...