The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

The folklore of the prophecy of St. Malachy says that Pope Francis may be the very last pontiff. Historians say that's doubtful.

Prevost will now go by a new name: Pope Leo XIV ... For instance, Pope Francis was the first to adopt the name of St. Francis of Assisi, signaling his commitment to humility and service to ...

Chris Packham has posed as St Francis of Assisi in a portrait celebrating him as a “living saint”. The portrait of the presenter and environmental campaigner is now on show on the altar of the ...

But in naming himself Leo, the new pope could also have wanted to signal a strong line of continuity: Brother Leo was the 13th century friar who was a great companion to St. Francis of Assisi ...

With Laudato Si’: On the Care of Our Common Home, Pope Francis echoed the words of St. Francis of Assisi, who considered ... it’s true that it’s new, but on the other, it’s also true ...

The Vatican’s College of Cardinals will soon gather in Rome to elect a new head of ... something Francis cared deeply about, like his namesake St. Francis of Assisi. Read more: Francis − ...

What will his new name be? Before he stepped out of the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in 2013 as Pope Francis in tribute to the saint of Assisi, the late pontiff was known as Cardinal Jorge ...