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Sunday's ceremony in St. Peter's Square blends ancient ritual, evocative symbols and a nod to modern-day celebrity.

Take a journey through the drawing rooms of Europe through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to ...

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets ...

I admonished my college students to keep a daily journal, especially when they travelled. Putting my preaching into practice during the ...

Sedona International Film Festival presents the Exhibition on Screen series with ‘Michelangelo: Love and Death’. The film ...

The election of Chicago-born and raised and Villanova-educated Cardinal Robert F. Prevost as pope at a time when the United States’ role on the world stage has never been more divisive has been ...

It depicts a boat packed full of immigrants risking themselves and their children throughout history to flee to safety — Jews leaving behind Nazis; Cubans rushing from Communism; my mother leaving ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

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

Remains of a sprawling necropolis (“city of the dead”) hidden under St. Peter’s Basilica were discovered ... Mosaics from the fifth century and a ceiling gilded with gold said to have ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for a conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis. Here are some things to know ...