It was used as a wax seal in private letters in place of the official lead seal used for solemn papal documents. In 1842, use of the ring and wax seal were replaced by a stamp, but each pope still ...

NBC 10's Gene Valicenti talks with medieval scholar Joëlle Rollo-Koster of the University of Rhode Island about the election of Pope Leo XIV. Cardinal Robert Prevost is a Chicago-born missionary ...