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"La pace sia con tutti voi!" (Peace be with you!), Leo's first words in public, echoed the ones Catholics use in their celebrations but also offered a...
Made a cardinal by Pope Francis in 2023, he has given few media interviews and rarely speaks in public.
Aged 69 and originally from Chicago, Prevost has spent most of his career as a missionary in Peru and became a cardinal only in 2023.
The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls on Wednesd...
This was an hour more than it took for smoke to be seen after the first vote in the 2013 conclave that picked the late Pope Francis.
No pope has been elected on the first day of a conclave for centuries, so voting could continue for several days before one of the red-hatted princes...
The clarification comes amid earlier reports suggesting that Cardinal Njue had not received an invitation to participate in the conclave.
He stressed that his absence was not due to health issues but admitted that he was unsure why he had been left out.
Two cardinals, one from Spain and one from Kenya, will not be joining the conclave for health reasons, the Vatican said.
The vehicle, used by the late pontiff during his 2014 visit to the Holy Land, is being outfitted with diagnostic and emergency medical equipment to he...
There were 135 cardinals aged under 80 when Francis died and are thereby eligible to take part in the conclave, but it is not known if all of them wil...
The cardinals will engage in a series of votes, held in secret, until one of them receives the required majority to become the next leader of the Cath...
Cardinals will pick Francis' successor at a conclave next month, deciding if the new pope should continue with the late pontiff's push for a more open...
Applause rang out as the coffin, inlaid with a large cross, was brought out of St. Peter's Basilica and into the sun-filled square by 14 white-gloved...
Pope Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, a move not seen since the burial of Pope Leo XIII in 1...
The funeral service will be presided over by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals.
The Apostolic Nuncio revealed that by doing that, they would be taking over from where the late Pope left and truly living out his legacy of humility...
“He loved Muslims and was dedicated to spreading peace. His final statements defended Palestine and the oppressed people of Gaza. His efforts helped a...
A continent where religion permeates most aspects of private and public life, Africa is where the Roman Catholic Church is growing fastest, according...
The reforms of Pope Francis could be termed a movement – from a church of a few where priests and bishops, and the pope call the shots, to a church of...
The Vatican on Tuesday released photographs of Francis dressed in his vestments and lying in a wooden coffin in the chapel of the Santa Marta residenc...
He took the name Francis in honour of Saint Francis of Assisi, becoming the first uniquely named pope in over 1,000 years (the last being Pope Lando i...
When Pope Francis was introduced in 2013, I was working as an African expert on global Catholicism for Canada Television. I went blank when the new po...
He also asked that the tomb be simple and set into the ground, bearing only a single inscription: Franciscus.
An old Italian saying warns against putting faith, or money, in any presumed front-runner ahead of the conclave, the closed-door gathering of cardinal...
Crowds began streaming into the venue long before dawn, with many spending the entire night in the cold, unrelenting downpour.
The decision by the FIGC affects four Serie A matches which had been scheduled to be played on Easter Monday, which is a national holiday in Italy.
His death marks the end of a transformative and often tumultuous papacy defined by a deep commitment to the poor, calls for peace and efforts to moder...
The pope's camerlengo (chamberlain), Cardinal Kevin Farrell, officially confirms the death. He then seals the pope's private apartment and prepares th...
Francis brought the Catholic Church's dialogue with Islam to new heights in 2019 by becoming the first pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula, but conser...
