I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass in the Sistine Chapel on Friday morning ... die since Pope John Paul II in 2005 at age 84. Pope Benedict stepped down in 2013 and died in 2022 at the ...

in the Sistine Chapel, Leo XIV presided over his first Eucharistic Celebration as pontiff with the cardinal electors present. Wearing black shoes and a pastoral cross made for Benedict XVI and ...

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He'll ...

A brief papal conclave ended on Thursday, May 8 after Robert Prevost (known as Pope Leo XIV) made history as the first American pope in the Catholic Church.

The papal conclave was officially over at around 6 p.m. local time Thursday after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new pope had been elected.

American cardinal Robert Prevost was announced as the choice to replace Pope Francis. Bells at St. Peter's Basilica rang and crowds cheered as the white smoke billowed from the chimney. The new leader ...

Additionally, for the first time, the new Pontiff will go to the Pauline Chapel to pray for a few minutes. The election of the new pope took two days and four votes, just like Benedict XVI in 2005. In ...