Pope Leo XIV prayed at Francis' tomb in St. Mary Major Basilica on Saturday as he made his way back to the Vatican after his ...

Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis, telling ...

Leo gave a prepared address and then opened the floor to any cardinal who wanted to make a comment, a different format to ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

Politicians, corporate leaders and owners of family businesses should take a leaf out of the late pope’s playbook ...

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

As cardinals begin a conclave to choose Pope Francis’ successor, they must decide whether to find a pope who follows his path ...

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

The conclave to choose the new pope is underway. And among the cardinals choosing the new Catholic leader is an Ohio native.