Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

VATICAN CITY -- Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church. Cardinals gathered to select their latest leader during a conclave. White smoke ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

An estimated 45,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square on Wednesday to await the results of the first papal conclave vote in Vatican City.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has become the first-ever American elected as the leader of the Catholic Church -- now known by his pontifical name of Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old, born on the ...

What will Pope Leo XIV do? Will he continue the policies of Pope Francis or take the Catholic church in another direction?

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...