Pope Leo XIV on Friday celebrated mass in the Sistine Chapel as Italian media saluted the first American pope and called ...

Before we met Pope Leo XIV, shows like "The New Pope" and "The Young Pope" mythologized the Vatican to the masses ...

The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that ...

Paolo Sorrentino's prophecy came true. The TV series 'The Young Pope', which premiered on Sky in 2016, has once again astonishingly predicted the future. The Pope, portrayed in the episodes by ...

In his 2016 Sky/HBO TV series “The Young Pope,” Sorrentino imagined the election of the first American pontiff, 47-year-old Lenny Belardo, played by Jude Law, a conservative who took the name ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

Among the roughly 1.4 billion Catholics around the world, many are keenly anticipating the upcoming conclave at the Vatican ...

Regina Coeli address during Easter, Pope Leo XIV gave pilgrims a surprise and sang the traditional Marian prayer, and prayed for increased vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring ...

How are young Catholics thinking about the American Catholic church during the papal transition. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks to the hosts of American Magazine's Jesuitical podcast.

Germany's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz congratulated "His Holiness Pope Leo XIV" on being elected to head the Catholic ...