Tens of thousands of faithful Catholics gathered in St. Peter’s Square to watch Pope Leo XIV deliver the first Sunday ...

Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

Pope Leo XIV pledged to align himself with “ordinary people” and against the rich and powerful as he presided over his first ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

READ: Vatican chimney installed ahead of papal conclave The basilica, one of the largest churches in the world, is a jewel of Renaissance architecture and contains the tomb of St Peter — the ...

The 69-year-old from Chicago stepped into his role as the 267th pope on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening, addressing thousands of cheering Catholics with the words ...

Valentina Kamenova is a 25-year-old ... by architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the 17th century. Cardinal electors due to vote in the conclave today streamed into St. Peter’s Basilica to take ...

When Pope Francis was elected by the conclave in March 2013, it was made very clear just hours after the vote by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Bishop of New York, that reform of the Vatican’s sclerotic ...

One such recent occasion was when the late Pope suggested last year that Israel's military campaign in Gaza might amount to ...