Pope Francis, 88, died of a stroke on April 21, Easter Monday, after a long respiratory illness. About 135 cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose a new pontiff next week, according ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. ... left to eat and sleep beneath Michelangelo's vivid Renaissance masterpiece.

Pope Leo XIV has written a warm and detailed letter to Cardinal Raymond Burke, thanking the American cardinal for 50 years of ...

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

In a process shrouded in secrecy, the Sacred College of Cardinals is gearing up to elect Pope Francis' successor inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, renowned for its extensive Renaissance art ...

Pope Francis dies; first pontiff from ... The vote for Benedict’s replacement, inside Michelangelo’s magnificent Sistine Chapel, concluded the evening of March 13, 2013, ...

When Pope Francis became pontiff: A timeline of his religious journey and career. Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario Bergoglio is born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the eldest of five children to Mario Jose ...

Pope Leo XIV, history’s first North American pope, celebrated his first Mass as pontiff on Friday, presiding in the Sistine Chapel with the cardinals who elected him to succeed Pope Francis and ...

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 ...

The debate in the Catholic Church over the celebration of the old Latin Mass is heating up just as Pope Leo XIV’s pontificate ...

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis’ policies.

Pope Francis, seen in St. Peter’s Square in 2016, was the spiritual leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics and the tiniest nation, Vatican City, since 2013.