According to the Rev. John Wauck, professor of church communication at the Pontifical Holy Cross University in Rome, Leo's ...

In “Conclave,” which is based on a 2016 Robert Harris novel, Fiennes plays a cardinal tasked with selecting a new pope and finds himself investigating secrets and scandals about the major candidates, ...

Pope Leo XIV has made waves with some of his fashion choices, returning to much of the traditional pomp of popes past ...

The Vatican doesn’t tax its residents or issue bonds, and it's got a very big budget problem. It primarily finances the Catholic Church’s central government through donations that have been plunging, ...

One of the greatest challenges facing Pope Leo XIV is financial. He has inherited the Holy See’s chronic, 50 million to 60 million euro ($57-68 million) structural deficit, a 1 billion euro ($1.14 ...

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina was elected pope on March 13, 2013, at the age of 76. The 266th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, he is the first Jesuit and the first to take the ...

Pope Leo XIV waves after walking onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his ...

From the moment Pope Leo XIV emerged from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, church observers have sought comparisons between the new, U.S.-born pontiff and his predecessor Pope Francis. Vatican ...

A weak and frail looking Pope Francis appeared on a hospital balcony Sunday to bless the crowd in his first public outing in five weeks and ahead of his release from the hospital after surviving a ...

The mood had changed from sorrow over Pope Francis’ death to excitement ... Tagle, David, Zuppi and Prevost), it was clear that almost anyone could emerge onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica.

As headlines in major U.S. publications on May 8 blared that the first pope from the U.S. had been elected, newspapers in Peru, where he is a citizen, begged to differ.

In his first words from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV said, “We must seek together how to be a missionary church.” The comment suggested continuity with Pope Francis ...