In his first words directed specifically to Americans, Pope Leo XIV told young people on Saturday how to find hope and ...

Zuppi was Francis’ peace envoy to Ukraine and works closely with the Community of St. Egidio. He was considered a favorite to ...

Pope Leo XIV “is the man the church and the world need right now” and his greatest challenge, “the one he’ll carry most in ...

The reading had been chosen by Pope Francis for his funeral, and they had reflected on it again when they said Mass in their titular churches in Rome ahead of the conclave. The next time they ...

After a month since his election, Pope Leo XIV’s papacy is beginning to take an initial shape, with the Augustinian emphasis ...

Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013. The cardinals are supposed to resist any "secular" influences in their choice of pope, but such lobbying abounded in Rome in the days before the conclave ...

King ‘told Conclave author he watched papal selection film’ - Robert Harris, 68, was made a CBE by Charles, and Dame ...

As Pope Leo XIV is formally inaugurated, he vows to work for unity and peace at a time of polarization in the Catholic Church and the wider world, with leaders including Vice President Vance and ...

Like our new pope,” a bartender said to me, stunned that for the first time an American—Robert Francis Prevost ... had coincided with the start of the conclave, the process by which the ...

John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days in 1978 — was elected on the third ballot. His successor, John Paul II, needed eight. Francis was elected on the fifth in 2013. Lobbying before the ...

Swedish Cardinal Anders Arborelius said the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV “was first and foremost a unifying experience.