Smoke signals have occurred at mid-morning, noon, mid-afternoon and evening. The longest conclave took three years.

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

The first American pope succeeds Francis, preaching peace while confronting Church divides and urgent global crises.

Baker was the senior international climate and environment correspondent at TIME. Baker was the senior international climate and environment correspondent at TIME. White smoke emerged from the ...

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

Then he did something notably uncharacteristic of Pope Francis. He sang. “Hallelujah,” he intoned reverently, in Latin. The moment spoke to an evolving truth. As much as Leo has echoed Francis since ...

Most stories about Pope Francis mention that he made history ... s role in the Indigenous boarding school system – Francis presented a disposition of listening and care. He spent more time meeting ...

Pope Francis on Saturday ... Still, according to the magazine, the last time someone in Parolin's position was elected the pope was in 1939, just as World War II was breaking out.

A perfect Roman day dawned on Saturday, April 26, the morning the Catholic Church laid to rest our beloved Pope ... Francis highlighted migration as the defining issue of our time.

The video call would become a daily occurrence for months. “The first time Pope Francis called,” he said, “I had the priest’s phone in my hand, I was very surprised and ran to get Father ...

A senior cardinal declares, “Habemus papam,” or “We have a Pope,” at which point the new leader of the church addresses the faithful for the first time. When Francis stood on the balcony for the first ...