The College of Cardinals is set to elect the new universal leader of the Catholic Church since the conclave starting on May 7. Despite being the “princes” of the Church, the cardinals, however, are ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

While it is interesting and perhaps even a point of pride that the new Pope Leo XIV was born in the United States, most of ...

I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

Cardinals are meeting in Vatican City to choose a new leader for the Catholic Church. This follows the death of Pope Francis.

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost will forever now be known as Pope Leo XIV. At 69 years old, he is seven years younger ...

That fact and that he will be chosen by an all-male College of Cardinals, which convenes ... But because the Catholic Church does not ordain women as priests, according to social elite label ...