Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

The longest conclave lasted almost three years. Thankfully, the timeframe has changed drastically in recent years.

That’s probably what a lot of people thought on Thursday after the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Robert ...

Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on ...

The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...

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

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis ...