Pope Francis installs 21 new cardinals, many key figures in his reform agenda Pope Francis will have created 110 of the 140 cardinals under 80, thus eligible to vote in a conclave.

Many faithful are hoping that the second day of the conclave will give the church and the world a new pope after a first vote produced dark smoke on Wednesday evening, sending a disappointed crowd ...

Madonna has called on Pope Leo to travel to Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian crisis, asking him to "bring your light to the ...

The 2025 conclave has brought the birds back—and the internet is once again in love. On X (formerly Twitter), users posted screenshots of the livestream camera trained on the chapel roof, noting ...

With Pope Francis’s death on Monday, April 21, 2025, the Roman Catholic Church around the world ... and the leader and highest diplomat of the global Catholic Church. The papal conclave begins soon, ...

As Pope Leo XIV approaches the 100-day mark of his papacy on Saturday, Mississippi’s Catholics are largely ecstatic about the energy he has brought to their church.

A view of the Papal or Apostolic Palace, a historic summer retreat for popes in the lakeside town of Castel Gandolfo, about 30 kilometers southeast of Rome, where Pope Leo XIV will be spending a ...