2024's "Conclave" is an Oscar-winning film about the election of a new pope. Is it based on a true story? And how much does ...

In a process that can last days, weeks, or even years, popes are elected by cardinals under strict oaths of silence.

"It's called team 14 because Pope Leo is the 14th pope named Leo," Cameron said. About 40 students meet every month to carry ...

Catholics had become conditioned to believe the conventional wisdom that an American would never be elected pope, writes ...

After a swift election in which the role of US funding for the Vatican is now emerging, and months of caution, Prevost has ...

Following the death or abdication of a pope, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican to choose a new leader at a papal conclave. However, a papal conclave does not necessarily ...

“Conclave” the movie provides a gripping, if fictional, behind-the-scenes look inside the secretive election of a new pope. But last year’s real-life conclave was just as dramatic, with plenty of plot ...

Patricia Sota, Maria Lafarga, Martha Torres, and Gladys Heraldez in Lake Como during their May 2025 trip through Italy that ...

When the Sistine Chapel's white smoke rose on May 8, it crowned not a campaigner, but a conciliator. What cardinals inside the conclave say they sought — and what they found in Robert Francis Prevost, ...

(RNS) — Two new books reveal insight around the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, tracing the alliances, rivalries and quiet maneuvering that shaped the first American papacy.