The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

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

Father Brian, a priest visiting Rome from the United States, references the movie "Conclave" while talking about the previous ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

One cardinal who cast his ballot said the pope’s choice of the papal name Leo might signal a particular interest in workers’ ...

Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...