With the passing of Pope Francis, the Roman Catholic Church is preparing to choose its next spiritual leader, a decision that ...

Here's when we could see smoke -- and a new pope -- now that the conclave is getting underway in Vatican City.

The Catholic Church has a new Pope, following the successful conclusion of the papal conclave on its second day.White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel—an age-old signal that a new ...

the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome, with 133 cardinal electors tasked with choosing Francis' successor. The question now ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...

Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church shut the doors of the Sistine ... in 1996 to house church officials. The last time a papal conclave convened, in 2013, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump quickly reacted to the appointment of the first American pope on Thursday, May 8. Pope Leo XIV, ...

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new ...