Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first American pope, is vowing to work for unity so that the Catholic Church becomes a sign of peace ...

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

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

A Sussex chapel is home to the world’s only known replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - and is described as being “better” than the ...

The hymn implores the saints to help the cardinals find a new leader of the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Cardinals are preparing to enter the Sistine Chapel. Here’s what will happen ...

Cardinals attend the first day of the conclave to elect the successor of late Pope Francis inside the Sistine Chapel at ... 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. In his first words as Pope ...

Around 6 a.m., thousands of people began to file into St. Peter’s Square for Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural Mass. Thousands of volunteers from the Red Cross and other groups took positions in the streets ...