I met the man who would become Pope Leo XIV in October 2023. We were standing outside the Vatican’s Synod Hall, and from my ...

The new Pope, Leo XIV, should direct an urgent review of the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with the Chinese government that allows ...

Vatican City witnessed a historic moment on May 8, 2025, as white smoke emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, ...

Catholic cardinals are locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel, sequestered from the world to elect the man ...

ローマ・カトリック教会の枢機卿が世界各地からバチカンのシスティーナ礼拝堂に集まり、現地時間７日午後から新教皇を選出する。新教皇は14億人の信徒に道徳的な指針を示し、世界の多くのよりどころとなることが期待される。

Vatican watchers said Prevost’s decision ... Specifically, Leo cited one of Francis’ key priorities of making the Catholic Church more attentive to lay people and inclusive.

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

Pope Leo XIV gave a homily at a Mass a day after he was chosen to lead the Catholic Church. Here's what the new pontiff said, ...

The historic election of Pope Leo XIV as the first U.S.-born pope is already upending an earlier calculus about U.S. conservative opposition to reform.

Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

The new pontiff is former Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, a Chicago-born Augustinian friar who previously headed the influential ...

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.