Cardinal Prevost's choice of the name Leo links him to Leo XIII, a 19th-century champion of social justice. It also recalls ...

The world officially has a new pope in Robert Francis Prevost, the first American ever to become pontiff, and with his ...

The Vatican Museums, which includes the Sistine Chapel, has been closed to the public as Vatican City prepares for the ...

The Sistine Chapel on the eve of the conclave in The ... Similarly, the cardinal of Baghdad, Louis Raphael Sako, reportedly told journalists at the Vatican last week that he expects a "short ...

During Tuesday’s Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) questioned Luke ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako leaves the Vatican ... The cardinals will take their oaths in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before they cast their first ballots.

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke billowing from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening ... days,” Chaldean Patriarch Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako told journalists this week.

On May 7, an expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope Francis, who shied away from giving red hats to the traditional ...