What’s more, The Godfather III’s pope and Vatican banking scandal aren’t entirely fictitious, but are based on true stories from the 12 years preceding the movie’s release. It’s ...

King Charles III (76) and Queen Camilla (77) are mourning the death of Pope Francis (1936-2025), who passed away on Easter Monday. Just hours after the news broke of the death of the head of the ...

The shortest conclave on record was in 1503, when it took the cardinals only 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III as the new pontiff. The longest conclave on record took nearly three years.

King Charles III (76) has reached out with a private message to newly elected Pope Leo XIV, congratulating him on his election as the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church. As reported by "Hello ...

The shortest conclave on record was in 1503, when it took the cardinals only 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III as the new pontiff. The late Pope Francis was elected in two days with five ballots ...

The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III. How long was the conclave that elected Pope Francis? The conclave that elected Pope Francis began on March 12 ...

American author, speaker and theologian Bishop Robert Barron was at the Vatican this week to witness the election of a new pope, and he shared ... He could have been John Paul III, then we would ...

How did the new pope win over his colleagues and what does he bring to the role from his upbringing in Chicago and his work in Peru? The king’s response—referring to the galero, broad ...

Only John, Gregory and Benedict have proven more popular. But we haven’t had a Pope Leo in more than a century. The last Pope Leo was Leo XIII, who was born in French-occupied Rome in 1810.

they noted that Bergoglio was first non-European to have served as pope since Gregory III, who served between the years 731 and 741. The Vatican's website states that Gregory III was from Syria.