The chimney of the Sistine Chapel, used to signal the election of a new pope, was dismantled on Saturday as faithul continued ...

When Villanova University's president, the Rev. Peter Donohue, was nearing graduation as a theatre student, a future pope ...

Who is the new pope? And when is the name revealed? Here's what we know after white smoke emerges over the Vatican.

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

Pope Leo has confirmed all top Vatican officials in their current roles on a temporary basis, giving him time to decide ...

A new pope has been chosen, indicated by white smoke that bellowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney on Thursday afternoon.

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost of the United States has been elected the new pope and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV.

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Pope Leo XIV waved to the thousands of people gathered in St Peter's Square on Thursday, after being elected as the new ...