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.

Whoever is picked will become one of the world's most powerful figures, considered to be the successor of St Peter, the first ...

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

The papal conclave begins Wednesday, May 7. There's no timeline for it to conclude. A new Pope could be selected in a matter of hours, days, weeks or even years. The voting is done in secrecy, with ...

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, ...

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

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.

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, ...

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