He secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

Italy's top cultural sites drew more than 60 million paying visitors in 2024, surpassing the country's population for the first time.The ancient Colosseum in Rome was the most visited attraction, with ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

"I wanted so much to come here in these first days of the new ministry that the church has given me" to seek Mary's help "to ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

ROME: Along with the spiritual leadership of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV now inherits oversight of the ...

The United States is the home country of 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope of the Catholic Church.

The Vatican is the world's smallest country, ruled by the Pope, with its own laws, bank, and army. Formed in 1929, it holds ...

One such recent occasion was when the late Pope suggested last year that Israel's military campaign in Gaza might amount to ...

Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Thursday, ...