Watch live as cardinals elect a new pope with white smoke rising from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday evening (8 May). Millions now await the announcement of the new head of the Catholic Church after ...

The turtles in Conclave appear throughout the movie, acting as both a key thematic symbol and a tool to foreshadow its surprise ending.

As Pope Leo XIV marks his sixth month in the papacy, Catholics are beginning to see just how he will put his mark on the throne of St. Peter. Leo has spoken out on a range of issues, from artificial ...

History, with a capital H, effectively begins on May 8 of this year when the Sistine Chapel chimney began to puff clouds of white smoke. The 267th Pope is a surprise: an American with a ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...

VATICAN CITY — Britain’s King Charles and Pope Leo prayed together in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel on Thursday, in the first joint worship including an English monarch and a Catholic pontiff since ...