When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

COMMENTARY: Who the new pope will be is not exactly who he has been — being Leo is different than being Robert, just as being Peter is different than being Simon.

From the first British Pontiff to the first American, in the sign of Saint Augustine. In between, nine centuries and 98 Popes ...

The method of electing a pope has evolved significantly over the centuries. During the first millennium, various approaches were used, but the process gradually became more structured, increasingly ...

10.Pope Pius XI was a scholar and avid mountaineer, and even wrote a book on mountain climbing, published in 1923. Prior to ...

Francis, the first Latin American pope, clearly had his eye on Prevost and in many ways saw him as his heir apparent. He sent ...

DONALD Trump has congratulated American Robert Prevost who has been elected as the new Pope Leo XIV. Prevost, 69, is the first ever American to helm the Catholic Church and was elected after just ...

The Papal conclave is a sacred and time-honoured tradition, marking the transition of leadership within the Catholic Church after a pope's passing. Recently, this process was dramatised in the ...