Pope Leo XIV, the first American leader of the Catholic Church, previously known as Robert Francis Prevost, gave his first ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Monday called for the release of imprisoned journalists and affirmed the “precious gift ...

The Papal Conclave has elected a new Pope as the new head of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church. All we know ...

Less than a month after Pope Francis’s death, a new leader of the Catholic Church has been selected. On Thursday, white smoke ...

By Elisabetta Povoledo Jason Horowitz and Emma Bubola Reporting from Rome and Vatican City The death of Pope Francis last month ... and the smoke is released through a chimney that can be seen ...

The tomb of Pope Paul VI lies in the extensive system of vaults called the Vatican Grottoes, built under St. Peter's Basilica in the 1500s. No surprise, then, that Francis’s arrangements for his ...

he will make a decision if he wants to move there (as is the tradition) or if he wants to stay at Casa Santa Marta (as Pope Francis who broke the tradition did).