A Mankato native who spent most of his journalism career covering the Vatican provided some dope on popes, his review of a ...

I understood why the election of a pope should take place nowhere else but the Sistine Chapel. Imagine 133 cardinals in red choir dress, processing at the start of the conclave to swear an oath ...

The backdrop of the conclave is the Sistine Chapel, and the site could not be more dramatic. Decorated with frescoes by Michelangelo and other renowned Renaissance artists, it is named after Pope ...

Last month, CBS News Chicago introduced you to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy students in Lakeview, who held a mock ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich visited the Chicago school that became a viral sensation for holding a mini conclave while the real ...

A s the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of ...

“Many of us would have spoken to him at least one or two times” before the conclave, one cardinal said. When the doors of the Sistine Chapel were closed, following a 45-minute homily by ...

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

Holy father, I dare tell you that all of Mexico congratulates you and is with you,” Aguiar Retes says he told Pope XIV.

Pope Leo XIV Thursday met with members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors to get an update about their ...

Another: Citing inspiration via mystical revelation, Reinaldus M. Benjamins of Malone, New York, claimed to be “Pope Gregory ...

In this series, NPR takes readers behind the news and explains how we do our journalism. Here for Reporter's Notebook All Things Considered hosts Ari Shapiro and Scott Detrow discuss what it's like to ...