How do popes choose their names?
Popes sometimes choose the name of a recent predecessor out of respect or to indicate a desire to continue in...
Popes sometimes choose the name of a recent predecessor out of respect or to indicate a desire to continue in...
Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1955. He graduated from Villanova University in Pennsylvania with a degree in mathematics,...
The smoke wafted from the roof after a day and a half of a secretive assembly of 133 cardinals from...
White smoke emerged from the roof of the Vatican on Thursday afternoon, signaling that a new pope, Pope Leo XIV,...
has announced that it will cut the phone signal within the tiny city state during the conclave to elect a new...
An array of lay women and men are required to house and feed the cardinals. A conclave’s duration cannot be...
The conclave will start behind the closed, wooden doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday afternoon, with all cardinals aged under 80...
In an attempt to influence cardinals and establish communication between the conclave and the outside world, messages have previously been hidden...
ATICAN CITY, May 2 (Reuters) – If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week’s conclave,...