FILE - Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran announces the newly elected Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who took the name of Pope Francis, elected on March 13, 2013, the 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church ...

What does the world need in a new pope? This is not the primary question facing the cardinals, and it is a question that would have been inconceivable before the Second Vatican Council reclaimed the ...

Update: White smoke poured from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon at the Vatican, indicating that the cardinal electors in the conclave had chosen a new pope. The most ...

Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the papal vicar for Rome, stands next to Pope Francis as the newly elected pontiff appears for the first time on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican ...

Pope Leo XIV watched the papal apartments get unsealed this weekend. His predecessor didn't live in the traditional apartments at the Vatican. It's unclear where the new pope will live, but photos ...

After being named the new pontiff to succeed the late Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV delivered his first speech from the bal… The College of Cardinals met in a papal ...

According to the Vatican Press Office, at the conclusion of the meeting with the bishops of the CEI, Pope Leo XIV traveled to ...

The first clue of the next pope's direction will be the name the winner chooses.The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...