Voting takes place by secret ballot under Michelangelo’s famous painted ceiling at the sacred Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. Four rounds of balloting are taken every day until a candidate ...

Pope Leo XIV will appear in public again this Sunday in St Peter's Square. From the balcony of St Peter's Basilica, the first ...

I, too, address the world’s great powers by repeating the ever-present call ‘never again war,’” Leo said from St. Peter’s ...

People queue to pay their respects to the late Pope Francis, who will lie in state at St. Peter's Basilica for three days, at the Vatican, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via ...

before he was to deliver his first Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican said the pope ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass on Sunday near the tomb of St. Peter, hours before he delivered the traditional Sunday noon blessing from the loggia of St.