Pope Leo XIV will preside over his inaugural mass today in front of St Peter’s Basilica, which marks the formal start of his ...

The Vatican is governed by the Holy See, which oversees stipends and allowances given to the leader of the Catholic church ...

Pyrotechnic chemistry drives the Vatican’s recipes for the black and white smoke used to announce papal election outcomes ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Since the last conclave in 2013, when Pope Francis was elected, technology and mobile ...

The provisions for the oath-taking are laid down in Vatican law. St. John Paul II rewrote the regulations on papal elections ...

The new pope, Leo XIV, is scheduled to deliver his first such prayer on Sunday from the loggia where he first appeared in ...

As the Vatican prepares for the secret meeting of cardinals who will pick a successor to Pope Francis, forget - to some extent - what you may have learned from "Conclave", last year's hit movie ...

Gibson, of Fordham, said another factor that might throw off the traditional resistance to an American pope is the election ...

Once the conclave begins, cardinals are not allowed to leave, other than for meals and to sleep at night, until a successor ...

That reform, contained in a 2022 constitution, overhauled the Vatican bureaucracy and fulfilled a key mandate Francis received from cardinals going into the 2013 conclave that elected him pope. But ...

As Catholic cardinals meet to choose a new pope, they will face a big question: Is it time, after three consecutive ...