We're still at the Rorschach test stage of the papacy, in which people can project almost anything they want to see amid the ...

ROME — The first clue of the next pope’s direction will be the name the winner chooses. The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s ...

VATICAN CITY — Predict who the next pope will be at your peril ... Promotions continued under John Paul’s successor, Benedict, who brought him to the Vatican in 2009 and made him the head ...

Cardinals from 70 countries have gathered at the Vatican to elect a new Pope in the most diverse conclave in history.

VATICAN CITY (AP ... it has taken between three and eight ballots to find a pope. John Paul I — the pope who reigned for 33 days — was elected on the third ballot in 1978.

For more than 26 years, Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and "clavis," meaning "together" and "key," respectively – highlighting the absolute, ...

JOHN PAUL: The papacy’s first composite name was chosen by Cardinal Albino Luciani in 1978 to honor Pope John XXIII, who opened the Vatican Council II process that reformed the Catholic Church ...

Pope John Paul II traveled the world with a silver pastoral staff topped with a dramatic, abstract crucifix crafted by the 20th-century artist Lello Scorzelli.

Pope Leo XIV is visiting the papal summer palace south of Rome. His visit is fueling speculation about whether he will use it ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Leo XIV has advanced the sainthood causes of two missionaries whose murders in the Amazon jungle in ...

Pope Leo XIV's election as the first American to lead the Catholic Church elevated him to the rare position of being a U.S.