Last week was quite special for the estimated 1.2 billion Catholics around the world when white smoke billowed across St.

Still, it was an exciting moment for the Americans who were at the Vatican that day. Mariner says he and his wife were in a ...

Pope Leo XIV arrives for an audience with thousands of journalists and media workers on May 12, 2025 at Paul VI Hall in Vatican City, Vatican. The audience with journalists has become a tradition ...

White smoke poured out of the chimney of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome on Thursday, announcing that a new pope ...

The owner of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the suburbs of Chicago yanked the humble abode off the market overnight with potential plans to jack up the price — after learning the Catholic Church’s ...

Bookies and AI alike failed to correctly determine the next pope - Cardinal Robert Prevost, known as Pope Leo XIV - but a ...

Known affectionately as "Apu Ambo" -- "Apu" meaning respected elder and "Ambo" being his diminutive nickname -- the ...

The end of each round of balloting will be signaled by smoke emanating from a stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke -- fumata nera in Italian -- indicates an inconclusive vote, while ...

Pope Francis passed away peacefully at 7:35 a.m. in his room at Casa Santa Marta, a Vatican guesthouse where he chose to live instead of the Apostolic Palace since his election as Pope in 2013. He had ...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed to world leaders to pursue peace, not war, in his first Sunday address to crowds in St Peter’s ...

This past week, the whole world tuned into the Papal conclave, wherein the next leader of the Catholic Church or the vicar of ...