Cardinal electors begin voting for new pope in Vatican 2025 conclave, as world waits for signal of white smoke.

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

After celebrating his first Mass as pope, Leo XIV is slated to have a full schedule in the coming days. His next engagement is expected to be a May 10 meeting with cardinals. He'll then have midday ...

Preaching in the Sistine Chapel on May 9 to the cardinals who elected him, the first pope born in the United States opened ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior cardinal deacon announced. The 69-year-old Chicago native is the first ...

With this one simple Latin word – literally, I accept — Robert Francis Cardinal Prevost, Chicago native, a priest of the religious order known as the Augustinians, missionary to Peru, Cardinal of the ...

The conclave to elect a new pope is well-known as the most secretive event in the Roman Catholic church. However, a British ...

During a press conference with American cardinals on Friday, Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, said he did not think the fact that Pope Leo was from the United States "carried much weight" in the ...

Cardinal Bychok light-heartedly described it as "the best time of my life" and encouraged everyone to give it a go. "Just try ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV began his first homily with words in English during Mass in the Sistine Chapel with the College of ...

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