VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation except Italy, home to 17 of the electors who will gather at the Vatican’s ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Although Pope Francis already set Aug. 3 as the date to declare the sainthood of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, Pope Leo XIV ...

Vatican firefighters installed the chimney at the Sistine Chapel over the weekend, along with the small stove in which the cardinals will burn their crumpled up ballots after each vote.

"It went well but I can't say anything." These are the only words from Cardinal Angelo Becciu after meeting Leo XIV. It was a ...

As with any new papacy, a quick look at their first appointments and audiences inside the system offers at least a small ...

Pope Leo XIV recalled the life and legacy of Cardinal in pectore Iuliu Hossu, a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop, “pastor and ...

Brazilian Cardinal Leonardo Steiner told America that Pope Leo would carry forward Pope Francis' legacy of synodality in the ...

Pope Leo XIV's offer to host peace talks between Russia and Ukraine -- an offer Russia has turned down -- was motivated by a ...

Cardinal Willem Eijk, a physician and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, opened the third annual conference organized ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope. The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the ...