Chicago Tribune photographer Brian Cassella captures the scene ahead of Pope Leo XIV’s installation in Vatican City.

Leo is an avid tennis player and fan and had said earlier this week that he would be up for a charity match when it was ...

Ranging over centuries and geography, and migrating across syllabi, the book was as familiar to Dutch paintings experts as ...

Pope Leo XIV urges Church to restore the faith of millions in his first homily as pontiff. Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful ...

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church entered the Sistine Chapel for the papal conclave to ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Following Pope Francis’ death, the Vatican begins the conclave to elect a new pope, with smoke signals from the Sistine ...

While Medieval Conclaves could extend for months and even years, the rules were tweaked by Pope John Paul II and Pope ...

Nuns don’t have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders gathered in ...