Pope Leo XIV has revived a former Vatican tradition and granted employees a bonus of €500 ($568) for the election of each new ...

Four students from Los Angeles-area Catholic high schools will visit the Vatican to participate in a memorial service for ...

Pope Leo XIV will be inaugurated as pontiff at a Mass in St Peter's Square. The service will mark the official start of his ...

"Even though we didn’t actually see the smoke or see the new pope, the feeling of being there, it was in everybody's heart.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — A quiet alliance between North and South American cardinals helped elect the first US-born pope.

The conclave of May 7–8 has yet to reveal all its secrets. But two weeks after the election of Leo XIV, our reporters in Rome ...

Since the election of Pope Leo XIV, a growing number of cardinals have been offering unusual glimpses into the conclave ...

“The only smoke that worked out in their favor was the cigar smoke they had at their receptions,” said Christopher White, the ...

The Delphi method shows how structured anonymity and iteration can foster trusted consensus in sacred spaces (such as ...

Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Tens of thousands came to St. Peter’s Square to mark the official start of the pontificate of the first American to lead the ...