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 ...

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

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

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 ...

and that September, Francis appointed him as Cardinal, per the Vatican. The new pope's chosen papal name, Leo, follows a long tradition dating back to St. Leo I, who died in 461.

Technically, any baptized Catholic man can become pope. That's not how it has historically ... who served as archbishop of Vienna from September 1995 until Jan. 22, 2025, has voiced support ...

In his first formal address, Pope Leo XIV has identified artificial intelligence (AI) as one of the most critical challenges ...