The secretive process will see Catholic cardinals vote on who will become the new pope and take the reins of the 1.39 billion ...

Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the Sistine Chapel on their second day of voting in conclave. Sworn to secrecy, on pain of ...

A new exhibit at the Old Ursuline Convent Museum traces the Pope’s Creole ancestry through centuries of New Orleans church ...

The first papal document signed by Leo XIV will be an apostolic exhortation, will have poverty as its theme, and is expected to be published on Oct. 9, the feast day of St. John Henry Newman. Despite ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

UPDATE: (3:25 p.m.): Here he is. His first words to the faithful were: "It seems to me that my brothers and cardinals have chosen one who is from far away, but here I am." UPDATE (3:21 p.m.): ...

Our 267th pope, leader of Roman Catholics (including myself) from around the world, celebrates his 70th birthday today. According to Vatican statistics gathered in 2023 and released to the public, ...