Showing up in Rome is pragmatic statecraft, executed under Bernini’s colonnade, where religious and political figures have ...

Tens of thousands are expected to gather at St Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday for Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass.

Experts say there isn’t a single front-runner, but several names have been cited as indications of the direction the Roman ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago has been elected pope, becoming the first American to lead the Roman Catholic ...

The announcement of Pope Leo XIV as the new pope was cause for celebration among Catholics around the world. For a group of ...

Political figures around the world have congratulated Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, after his election ...

The "Millennial Saint" Carlo Acutis, who died aged 15, isn't actually the youngest saint in modern times. An 11-year-old girl is.

The pontiff held his first meeting with the news media at the Vatican and called on reporters to choose “the path of ...

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His tally was rising with each round of voting, while support for the early front-runner—Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin—was ...

They shared a picture from their trip. In the crowd, the couple said they were close enough to the future of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV.

A lot of my friends are calling it the Villanova Vatican,” said Caroline Pirtle, a Villanova University junior who interned at the Vatican this semester and just returned home to Minneapolis Thursday ...