Leo XIV held his first Mass as pope in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, in what was a private service for the 132 voting ...

Support for the new Pope, who is seen as a conciliatory figure, accelerated after the second ballot and coalesced into a ...

At this early stage of Leo XIV’s pontificate, the text is a “must read” for Catholics. Here are three notable takeaways.

In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the ...

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

Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff, has identified artificial intelligence as central to the Church's future ...

Black smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first day of ...

Cardinals from 70 countries have gathered at the Vatican to elect a new Pope in the most diverse conclave in history.

The late pope’s attention to geographic detail led to what was described as the most diverse conclave in the history of the ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation ...

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 ...

Cardinals Timothy Dolan and Wilton Daniel Gregory, among others, addressed questions Friday about Leo’s path to becoming pontiff. When asked whether the selection of the first American pope was a ...