Mass was held in St. Peter’s Basilica hours before 133 cardinals began the conclave to select the man who will replace Pope Francis as the next pontiff.

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

As cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a successor to Pope Francis, there is no single frontrunner, and it remains unclear whether the new pope will align with Francis’s more ...

The conclave on Thursday elected a new pope after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel, but the new pope has ...

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

It's the first full day of the conclave to find a replacement for Pope Francis, with this morning's inconclusive pair of votes yielding black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney at midday local time ...

In a process shrouded in secrecy, the Sacred College of Cardinals is gearing up to elect Pope Francis' successor inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, renowned for its extensive Renaissance art ...

Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Mass as pontiff in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, delivering a passionate speech that ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke was pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. More ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, was chosen as the 267th Pope elected by 133 cardinals locked inside the Sistine Chapel on the second day of their conclave - a process that has been in ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first conclave ballot failed to find a winner, sending billowing black smoke through ...

Leo XIV’s predecessor Pope Francis, birth name Jorge Maria Bergoglio, appointed 80% of the cardinals who voted to elect one of them as the next pope. Most of Bergoglio’s appointees are younger and ...