PORT CHARLOTTE — A day before the conclave to elect a new pope, Louis Prevost called his younger brother, Robert Prevost, ...

When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter's Basilica last week, 73-year-old Port Charlotte resident Louis Prevost learned that his brother — Robert Prevost — had been elected pope.

As a Catholic who attends the traditional Latin Mass, I love Pope Leo XIV; all Catholics have a duty to render filial love ...

A frenzy of betting is underway as gamblers try to predict results of the upcoming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor.

Francis tenaciously clung to the challenging words of the gospel, which were the lens through which he viewed the world. We ...

By 1588, Pope Sixtus V formally created the “College for Brokers of Wagers,” a legal body that oversaw public betting in Rome, where betting markets were integrated with shipping insurance and ...

Pope Sixtus VII, will soon begin the formal responsibilities of his office. His name choice, Leo XIV revives a papal title that has not been used since 1878.

The Sistine Chapel is named after Sixtus IV, who became pope in 1471 and commissioned its construction as the primary chapel of the papal court. It has been posited, though there are skeptics ...

“He comes out with, ‘I'm thinking about Sixtus,’” Louis said. “He went, ‘I’m gonna be Pope Sixtus the sixth.’” When the white smoke poured out of St. Peter’s Basilica last ...