Poland’s iconic Royal Sigismund Bell tolled on Thursday as Catholics around the world welcomed the election of US Cardinal ...

The Vatican announced the election of Pope Leo XIV shortly after white smoke blew from the roof of the Sistine Chapel on ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

Rumors began to circulate in June 1979 that Pope John Paul II might travel to Chicago, which was then home to 2.4 million ...

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...

You'll also find several hotels in this historic neighborhood, plus Old World churches like St. Mary's Basilica and Wawel ... and some of the best nightlife Poland has to offer.

On the Sunday before the conclave begins, a good many cardinals will visit their “titular churches” in Rome ... It was used for both Pope Francis and Pope St. John Paul II.

But that first night, after he went to confession at St. James the Apostle church ... Roman Catholic youths guard a life-size figure in Kalwaria Pacławska, Poland. The Feast of the Assumption ...

The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...

As Poland gears up for the May 18 presidential election, a striking political shift is taking shape: the once-unifying cause ...