VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday evening local time, signaling that the 133 cardinals working inside had reached a two-thirds ...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday opened a new phase of his pontificate by gathering the world’s cardinals to Rome and indicating some reform-minded priorities by calling the modernizing ...

Catholics around the world will once again be able to watch the Vatican’s Christmas liturgies live from St. Peter’s Basilica, including both Christmas Eve Midnight Mass and Christmas Day Mass, via an ...

Pope Leo XIV told cardinals present for the extraordinary consistory they're together to take part in "discernment," not ...