The expectation is that the new Pope will continue the work of Francis in a different guise, and his name signifies this. Leo ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

The same goes for the afternoon voting – if there is a two-thirds consensus after the first round of balloting in the ...

Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday ...

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

Even as Pope Leo XIV's profile as a humble champion of the disenfranchised takes shape, a looming question is how he will ...

Showing up in Rome is pragmatic statecraft, executed under Bernini’s colonnade, where religious and political figures have ...

Pope Leo XIV has personally invited President Bola Tinubu to Vatican. He gave historical reason for the invitation extended ...

As far as news events go, the naming of a new pope is still pretty ... American to be named head of the Catholic Church and chose the papal name of Pope Leo XIV, which is how he’ll be known ...

Omaha native Blase Cupich is back in the States after attending the conclave in Rome last week. He's one of the 251 cardinals ...