"Holy father, I dare tell you that all of Mexico congratulates you and is with you," Aguiar Retes says he told Pope XIV.

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The late artist Maxo Vanka created the mural in 1941, based on a scene from the Book of Exodus. It’s one of 25 murals that ...

They sing Gregorian chants in Latin, pray and receive Communion at a side chapel — inside the huge, nondenominational ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

From the outside, it looks like any other New England church building: a boxy, white structure with a single steeple surrounded by an old stone wall, set against rolling hills and pine forest.

At a conclave with many new members, a swift, stunning consensus built around an unknown to many outside of the church.

Newly chosen Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, along with the cardinals who elected him. Follow for live news updates.

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 ...