Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers, were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis. The two share many of the same views on ...

World leaders have started coming out to congratulate Robert Francis Prevost on becoming the new Pope including President ...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile.” That means they possess the ...

The naming of a new pope, signaled by white smoke flowing from a chimney at the Sistine Chapel, comes after two days of ...

The papal conclave—the election of the next Pope—started on Wednesday, May 7, with 133 cardinals gathering at the Vatican’s ...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. Follow here for the latest.

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...