The College of Cardinals is set to elect the new universal leader of the Catholic Church since the conclave starting on May 7. Despite being the “princes” of the Church, the cardinals, however, are ...

Cardinals chose a new pope to lead the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Thursday, sending up white smoke from the Sistine ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Thursday (May 8), signalling that the cardinals locked in a ...

Black smoke billowed from a chimney on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Thursday morning, signaling that a successor to ...

Born in the U.S., forged in Peru, chosen in Rome, Leo XIV will helm a church facing debt, division and decline ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the ...

No one knows how long it will take to elect the next Pope, but it's predicted to be at least a two or three-day wait.

The College of Cardinals elected a new pope Thursday, the first from America in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church ...

ANALYSIS: Catholic aesthetics have captivated both believers and nonbelievers worldwide, sparking a renewed admiration for ...

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and Prime Minister Lawrence Wong also wrote to the new pope to congratulate him.