Habemus papam, we have a pope!” exclaimed Levi Meyer, a junior at St. John Vianney College Seminary (SJV) in St. Paul who is ...

Hailing from 70 countries, the cardinals are being sequestered from the outside world, their cellphones surrendered and ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass ... The Mass comes before the private process to select a new leader of the Catholic Church. The dean of the College of ...

Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88. As tributes pour in from around the world, the Vatican faces a transition.

Thousands of people began filing through St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their final respects ... period of transition in the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church, with cardinals gathering over ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Thousands of people filed through the central aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica to pay their ... transition in the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church, with cardinals gathering ...

"The last thing I imagined was an American pope," said Daniel Runde, 21, a Catholic from the United States who was in St. Peter's Square with two friends. "From what I saw as Pope Leo XIV stepped ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the Roman Catholic Church. Vice President JD Vance was among the dignitaries ...

The body of the pope was moved to St. Peter's early Wednesday to lie in state for the Catholic faithful to pay ... will be celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista ...