to announce the Gospel,” former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, of Chicago said in English. The new pope stood at an altar next to the Michelangelo painting “The Last Judgment” and ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next pontiff at the conclave.

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo ... reformer pope and referring to some of Francis ...

Pope Francis left a lasting legacy ... This was the first commission for Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who was hired in July 1599. A year later, “The Calling of Saint Matthew” and ...

Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

In comparison, seven cardinals have expressed opposition to synodality principles; of those, three were made cardinals by Francis, three by Pope Benedict ... frescos of Michelangelo they will ...

They’ll take their oaths of secrecy under the daunting vision of heaven and hell in Michelangelo’s ... Does it even matter? Pope Francis was the first Latin American pope, and the region ...

Wearing white vestments, Leo processed into the Sistine Chapel and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo ... reformer pope and referring to some of Francis ...