Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, became a novitiate in the Order of St. Augustine at age 22 after graduating from ...

In 1012, Pope Sergius IV died, ending a nearly three- year papacy; he was suc- ceeded by Pope Benedict VIII. In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, ...

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

After four rounds of voting, the cardinals summoned for the Conclave reached a consensus to elect the new pope ...

From St. Peter to Pope Francis, the history of the papacy in the Catholic Church spans more than two thousand years. The pope ...

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

The death of Clement IV (1268) opened a 33-month period of sede vacante, the longest in history. Once the cardinals were ...

Conclave is a fictional film on the closed-door process of appointing a new Pope – did they get it right? We investigate.

Let’s take a look back at history and explore the complete list of popes throughout the Church’s nearly 2,000-year history.

Pope Francis, who passed away earlier this week at age 88, made history when he was elected pope. Not only was he the first Jesuit pope, he was the first pope from South America—the first pope ...

The pope was formally pronounced dead by the cardinal camerlengo — currently Irish-born American Kevin Farrell — who is one of the most important Vatican officials during the interregnum period.

Even before Saturday's funeral service for Pope Francis at the Vatican, the leader known as "the People's Pope" had already broken with some traditions in the ways pontiffs are laid to rest.