Eighteen days after Pope Francis last appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, his successor -- the 267th pope -- ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the conclave. His papal ...

New Pope Leo XIV was critical of vice president J.D. Vance on social media just months before his appointment.

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case, only two days. The Vatican doesn’t publish official data on the number ...

Filipino Cardinals Luis Antonio Tagle, Jose Advincula, and Pablo Virgilio David attend Sunday Mass at the Pontificio Collegio ...

Some 133 cardinals of the Catholic Church casted their votes for a successor to Pope Francis. Get to know the key players and ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Omaha native Blase Cupich is back in the States after attending the conclave in Rome last week. He's one of the 251 cardinals in the world. Cupich spent six years working with Robert Prevost, who's ...