VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV said Friday that his election was both a cross to bear and a blessing as he celebrated his ...

With the papal conclave under way in the Vatican to select a new pope, many at Holy Name Cathedral prayed Wednesday for the ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass before the conclave to elect the successor to Pope ...

Cardinals held the Pro Eligendo Romano Pontifice Mass (Latin: For the Election of the Roman Pontiff) — the final liturgical celebration before the conclave.

Boston Archbishop Richard Henning celebrated a mass in Braintree on Tuesday, to ask the Holy Spirit to guide the Cardinals as ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

The cardinals began the day by participating in a final pre-conclave Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. The dean of the College of ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

But Brown had some notes. Referring to the sets and costumes, Brown said some cardinals wore Roman collars that "are not ...

What happens in a conclave? A solemn day began with a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. The cardinals walked in procession into the frescoed Sistine Chapel, chanting the meditative “Litany of the ...

The Mass precedes the secretive and ritual-filled process to find a new leader of the Catholic Church following the novel ...