Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s.

The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate (BCP) expresses its strong opposition to Pope Leo XIV, highlighting concerns over his ...

If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope. The Papal Conclave 2025 will start on Wednesday, May 7, with a A total of 133 ...

When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

Pope Leo VIII technically came to power in 963, succeeding the brief and scandal-ridden papacy of John XII, and ruled in a ...