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VATICAN CITY (AP ... when a top cardinal utters the words “Habemus Papam!” — Latin for “We have a pope!” — from the loggia of the basilica. The cardinal then reads the winner ...

This coming Advent, Catholics throughout the English-speaking world will begin using a new translation for the prayers that we say in the Mass. This new, third edition of the Roman Missal is the ...

which could have slowed down the proceedings if help with translation was needed. While in the past Latin was the universal language of the church, nowadays not all cardinals understand Latin or even ...

The language barrier has helped maintain an air of unreality around the papacy in the U.S. That is about to change.

I don’t think he’s the kind of man who sends coded messages,” Cardinal Michael Czerny says in this exclusive interview with ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV ... he’d be voting for Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem who is on many papal contender lists. “He has clear ideas, not much ...

(Vatican Media) Francis, the only Latin American pontiff in history ... be in dialogue with love,” according to an English translation. Pope Leo appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica ...

Latin for “We have a pope ... Did someone get sick or need translation help? Did the papal preacher take a long time to deliver his meditation before the voting began? “They probably need more time,” ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Asked whether it was unexpected for an American to be elected, Father Reese said: “Oh yeah, shocking.” Robert Prevost, who has just been announced as the new pope, will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

The world of Donald Trump, Elon Musk and similar believers in transactional reality has created a moral vacuum. There is an ...