Four ex-military friends are planning to summit Everest without the usual lengthy acclimitization period, relying on ...

In just over 24 hours and after at least four separate ballots, 133 cardinals reached a historic consensus beneath the ...

Pope Leo XIV was elected as the Catholic Church's 267th leader on Thursday. The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel ...

Fr. Schmidt says in past centuries, some conclaves have lasted for months, but no conclave has lasted more than four days ...

The new pope, speaking to thousands in St. Peter’s Square, echoed themes that Francis, his predecessor, regularly addressed.

The end of each round of balloting will be signaled by smoke emanating from a stovepipe chimney atop the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke -- fumata nera in Italian -- indicates an inconclusive vote, while ...

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Robert Prevost, a tennis-loving, Wordle-playing White Sox fan from Chicago, is now leader of the world's nearly 1.5 billion Catholics. Vatican observers describe what the election of Leo XIV, the ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, about the significance of the Cardinals electing the first pope from the United States.

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's ...

The ritual for electing a new pope took social media by storm this week as content creators reacted to the ancient tradition ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, has something in common with many of his peers in the Catholic hierarchy. He’s been in positions of ...