Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

Italy has backed President Donald Trump's suggestion the Vatican might mediate talks on negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine, ...

First the audience with the tennis superstar Sinner, then the meeting with the athletes from Napoli, and now, Pope Leo XIV ...

Intrigue, fashion, humility, faith—133 cardinal electors have descended on Rome to choose a new pope and their every move and ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that the new pope will have to face.

Thousands of people have been gathering in St Peter’s Square to witness the time-honoured tradition which signified that no candidate had garnered the two-thirds majority needed to become the new pope ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the coming days are part of a priceless cultural heritage. Here are descriptions o ...

Each day, our special correspondents in Rome tell you what is happening at the Vatican in this very special time until the ...

Later, the cardinals gathered in the Pauline Chapel inside the Vatican for prayer and reflection, beseeching the Holy Spirit to guide ... begun by Francis.” The doors of the Sistine Chapel ...