King Charles and Prince William will not attend Pope Leo XIV's inauguration mass. Buckingham Palace announced that Prince ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

King Charles, the head of the Church of England, sent private congratulations to the new leader of the Catholic church. In ...

Whether it is Francis II, Leo XIV, or a never-before-used name, a new pope's chosen name sends an early signal about his ...

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

Deepening unity among Catholics will be the greatest challenge facing the next pope, who will be elected as early as ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Vatican cuts phone signal ahead of secret Sistine Chapel vote to elect new pope - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal ...

Robert Prevost, the newly elected Pope Leo XIV, was not among the top contenders, making his selection a relative surprise.

Cardinals begin secret vote to choose new Pope as crowds watch for smoke from Vatican - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior ...

Remains of a sprawling necropolis (“city ... the Vatican Grottoes, built under St. Peter's Basilica in the 1500s. No surprise, then, that Francis’s arrangements for his own funeral broke ...