White smoke has billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signalling that a new Pope has been elected. The identity of the pope and the name he has chosen as pontiff will be announced to the ...

Job description: Leading the 1.4 billion-strong Catholic Church. Location: Vatican City. Ghanaian mother and child who arrived in US on valid visas to fly home after detainment, lawyers say Canadian ...

IMUS, Philippines — Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle may be one of the favorites to be named the next pope, but a Catholic Sister who has known him for half a century says she will never pray for it to ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle took his titular post in the diocese of Albano in Italy on October 11, marking a significant step as a cardinal bishop. The suburbicarian diocese of Al ...

Pope Leo XIV stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected, at the Vatican, May 8, 2025. The secret conclave that elected Pope Leo head of the Catholic Church last May was ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization, Section for First Evangelization and New Particular Churches, visited Burundi on Saturday, May 16, 2026. The Filipino ...

Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, waves to the crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after his election as pope on May 8, 2025. Credit: (CNS photo/Vatican Media) On May 8—the ...

The cardinals who participated in the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV described his election as willed by the Holy Spirit. Yet a new book suggests that Cardinal Robert Prevost's path to the papacy ...

Secrets of the Conclave review – Infinitely more dull than the Hollywood version - 2/5 BBC documentary zaps the mystery and majesty out of one of religion’s most ancient customs ...