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

Like all major tourist destinations, Rome is awash in souvenirs. With Holy Year Catholic pilgrims, Pope Francis ’ funeral and ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no written ...

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 new Pope is 69 years old. Here are the ages at which the three previous Popes began their papacies: John Paul II, ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s ...

They shared a picture from their trip. In the crowd, the couple said they were close enough to the future of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo XIV.

Pope Benedict XVI had made Burke a cardinal in 2010 ... He earned degrees from Catholic universities in Washington and Rome and worked in the Vatican office overseeing appointments of bishops.

Sarasota Magazine contributing editor and current Rome resident Elizabeth Djinis on witnessing the assumption of the first ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the ...

The Pope who blessed Rome gave his blessing to the world ... The conclave that elected his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, began on April 18, 2005. Benedict was announced as pope the next day ...

In 2005, Benedict XVI was installed in Rome as the 265th Roman Catholic pope. In 2013, a building that housed clothing factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,000 people.