Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

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

Overwhelmingly, newspapers ran with images of Leo XIV as he greeted the world as pope for the first time, waving to ... Newspapers featuring the new pope on the front page at a vendor in downtown ...

The new pontiff Robert Prevost ... religious order which the future pope headed from 2001 to 2013. "I have met him many times since then - the last time was in Rome when he was made a cardinal ...

You’re reading The New Yorker’s daily ... will Catholics and the world find out who he is. For more: read Elie on how the Pope’s role has changed in our time. Trump’s Playbook to Cripple ...

Father Peter Donohue, the president of Villanova University, was having lunch with a few of the school’s alums in a Chicago ...

People were speculating whether the new Pope would maintain a robust social media presence, and it was reported on Tuesday that he would continue to use social media like his predecessor ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

She has reported for TIME from Asia ... candidates to replace Pope John Paul II in 2005. As if to prove his point, Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, who greeted the world from the St. Peter’s balcony ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Still, the very fact that the new Pope ... time when America’s image was often tied to loud, combative nationalism and a cult of personality. How poetic, then, that as we turn the page, the ...

10:20 am May 7, 2025: This story was updated with new information ... choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away from the world to elect ...