Israeli President Isaac Herzog said after the election of Pope Leo XIV that he was eager to improve relations between Israel ...

A Jerusalem cardinal who spent decades fostering interfaith ties among Christians, Jews and Muslims is a leading contender to ...

The Chicago-born pontiff becomes both the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in chief of the great ...

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha congratulated Pope Leo XIV on his election, stating that Ukraine is already looking ...

World leaders welcomed the election Thursday of Robert Francis Prevost as the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Invoking the help of the Holy Spirit and recognizing that millions of people all over the world were praying for them, 133 ...

Who is voting for the next pope? Cardinal Timothy Dolan and Cardinal Joseph Tobin are among the US cardinals eligible.

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

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Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected the first pope from the United States on the second day of the conclave Thursday.Leo was born in Chicago and has dual citizenship in the United ...

The 70-year-old veteran diplomat was Francis’ secretary of state, essentially the Holy See’s prime minister. Though associated closely with Francis’ pontificate, Parolin is much more demure ...