VATICAN CITY — The sealing of the coffin officially ended three days of public viewing of Pope Francis in Rome. The Vatican says about 250,000 people filed through St. Peter’s Basilica, and hundreds ...

Ed. Note 5/6/25 2:00 p.m. ET: The new pope is Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American whose choice is seen as a major surprise. He has chosen the name Leo XIV. Read about him here. As the latest conclave ...

Two popes . . . Francis and John Paul II . . . their deaths separated by almost exactly twenty years. Both world-renowned figures and similar in personal approach . . . but the two were different, as ...

The first clue of the next pope's direction will be the name the winner chooses.The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Pope Francis, 88, was recently diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, and as concerned Catholics around the world pray for the Holy Father, the Vatican revealed last week that he will remain hospitalized ...

This undated photograph shows a young Pope Francis, then Jorge Bergoglio, with his family. Back row, from left: his brother Alberto Horacio, Jorge himself, brother Oscar Adrian, and sister Marta ...