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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two Brazilian nuns have gone viral after dropping an impromptu beatbox and dance session during a Catholic television program.

After a month since his election, Pope Leo XIV’s papacy is beginning to take an initial shape, with the Augustinian emphasis ...