Cardinal Robert F. Prevost's selection of the name Pope Leo XIV was an apparent nod to Pope Leo XIII, the father of Catholic social doctrine.

Cardinal-electors take an oath to maintain “absolute and perpetual secrecy” concerning “all matters directly or indirectly ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

After the death of a Pope, a papal conclave—an incredibly secretive and important process— takes place in the Vatican as cardinals determine who will next lead the Catholic Church. Following ...

AP Photo/Andrew Medichini Conclave to Pick New Pope 'Will Be Short,' Predicts Cardinal: 'I Think There Is a Consensus' Once a new pope has been elected, the most junior of the Cardinal Decons will ...

Update: White smoke poured from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon at the Vatican, indicating that the cardinal electors in the conclave had chosen a new pope.

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to select a new pope. After the first round of voting, black smoke ...

It produced Pope Gregory X. The last time a conclave lasted more than five days was 1830-1831, when the cardinals elected Pope Gregory XVI after 50 days. First Time a Pope Took a Double Name In ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signalling that the cardinals locked in a conclave have not yet chosen a new pope to guide the ... expected some time after ...

Leo XIV is the new Pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has ... There is no time limit for a conclave, and none has lasted more than five days since 1830. In 2005, it took just 24 hours and four ...