Along with the spiritual leadership of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, Pope Leo XIV now inherits oversight of the ...

The selection of Robert Prevost surprised outside observers. But as other contenders fell away, one after another, the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first person from the United States to lead the Catholic Church, is taking on a financial headache in his ...

The latest estimate from the police is that about 30,000 people are currently in St Peter's Square. Tina Beattie, former ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a 69-year-old Chicago-born missionary, was elected the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic ...

The next pope will inherit a soaring deficit and culture of financial malpractice that Francis tried and failed to solve even ...

Crowds were gathered in their tens of thousands in St Peter's Square in Vatican City for the first vote of conclave.

Twists and turns were par for the course in the pre-conclave lobbying period. Giovanni Angelo Becciu, once the Holy See’s ...

Cardinals play a central role in the papal election, known as a conclave. There are currently 252 Catholic cardinals, but only 133 will vote for a new pope as they must be under 80 years of age to ...

The world’s eyes are once again on the Vatican as 133 cardinals have entered the Sistine Chapel and begun the solemn, secretive process of electing a new pope. The cardinals, all under the age of 80, ...

Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson was the first Ghanaian to be made a cardinal, back in 2003 under Pope John Paul II, and was made ...