The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been announced as the new pontiff and has chosen the name Pope Leo XIV. There are no wri ...

a period of German popes who chose names of early church bishops out of “a desire to signify continuity," said the Rev. Roberto Regoli, a historian at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University. For many ...

Pope Leo XIV's choice of name signals a commitment to social justice which is very much in line with the late Pope Francis ' global ministry.

a period of German popes who chose names of early church bishops out of “a desire to signify continuity,” according to Rev. Roberto Regoli, a historian at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. For ...

Uses and Abuses of Power” is a program meant to assure audiences that questions of the present have confronted people in the ...

Once a new pope is voted in, the name he chooses could signal the direction the Catholic Church moves in the coming years.

According to a schedule determined by church law, the conclave can only begin after the nine-day mourning period ... mystical Gregorian chant imploring the intercession of the saints, as they ...

The ceremony, with Gregorian chants and Latin verses reverberating ... of the possible successors to Pope Francis. This is the period between pontiffs and comes from a Latin phrase meaning ...

Roberto Regoli, a professor of Church history and culture at the Pontifical Gregorian University in ... "We are in a period in which Catholicism is experiencing various polarisations, so I don ...