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

When white smoke rose over the Vatican. A dispatch from Rome, where Robert Francis Prevost addressed the crowd for the first time as Leo XIV, the only Pope to have been born in America. Plus: • Pity ...

Pope Francis on Saturday, presiding at Holy Mass for the Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals ... Still, according to the magazine, the last time someone in Parolin's ...

Will he have the courage to unite the faithful in hope, as Francis did, in a world increasingly divided? While senior America staffers on the ground in Rome cover ... this time. Like Pope Francis ...

The pope’s favorite baseball team, the Chicago White Sox, congratulated the pontiff on its jumbotron following his election.

Donald Trump is trying to take credit for the selection of the first American pope—who doesn’t seem ... relayed the words of Cardinal Francis George, the former American prelate, to CBS ...

The conclave chose American-born Cardinal Robert Francis ... new pope means a new Time cover. This one features Pope Leo. Leo, smiling with his hands held in front of him, graces the coveted ...

Those were the first words of Pope Leo XIV, the newly anointed leader of the Catholic Church. As Cardinal Robert Francis ... time. The papal tradition of a cardinal taking a new name as he is ...

The informal logic is that such an arrangement would risk putting preeminent temporal and spiritual authority into the hands of the same clan. It is always safer to pick a pope from a more quaint ...

A conclave must start 15 to 20 days after the death of the previous pope. Pope Francis ... for the new pope would be “those of the previous conclaves, because each time we made three robes ...