After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves ... under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's ...

We’ve all wanted to yell it at one time or another, but only the master of papal liturgical celebrations gets to do it tomorrow in Latin. With a shout of “extra omnes!” on the afternoon of ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo's masterpiece “The Last Judgment,” and led the ... crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination sent ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell, “The Last Judgment,” and led ... down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, celebrating a morning Mass ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

He stood before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell, “The Last Judgment,” and led the ... will crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination sent ...

Standing before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell in “The Last Judgment,” each cardinal ... will crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination ...