Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, right, in Jakarta, Indonesia, last September. He has long been seen as a front-runner to be pope.Credit...Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle ...

Catholic cardinals have reconvened in the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to continue their effort to elect a new ...

A chimney above the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican will signal the election of a new pope and leader of the Catholic Church.

This story has been updated. The Catholic Church and its approximately 1.4 billion followers have a new leader and the first ...

The Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi has clarified reports regarding the participation of Cardinal John Njue in the election ...

Pope Leo XIV, 69, was elected to take up the ... Francis then elevated him to the position of Cardinal in September 2023. Leo was reported to be closely aligned to Francis's teachings as leader ...

He was elevated by Pope Francis to the rank of Cardinal in September 2023. Addressing the faithful in St. Peter's Square in Italian and Spanish, Prevost is the first pope to be a native English ...