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

Throughout history, there’s been so much drama at the top of the Catholic Church, it’s no wonder the movie Conclave was a ...

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...

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.

The late Pope Francis continued his legacy as an open-armed trailblazer by opening the sacred portal of the Vatican and dying ...

The cardinals took their time after the death of Pope Clement IV in 1268 ... tainted the conclave following the death of Pope Gregory XI. The home of the papacy had switched to France in 1309 ...

Catholic cardinals from all around the the world will be locked in the Vatican today to decide on the successor to Pope ...

Only Urban VI has been buried with the Holy Doors open, as he fell too ill to attend the ceremony in 1699 and died in 1700, leaving Pope Clement XI to close the door, according to that outlet.

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.

With his death April 21, Pope Francis marked yet another first in the history of the Catholic Church: he became the first pope to open the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica without living to close it.

The longest conclave in the last 100 years was in 1922 and took five days and concluded with the election of Pope Pius XI. He served as ... When Pope Clement IV died in 1268 it took 1,006 days ...

Pope Clement XI, closed the jubilee in his place. The 1700 jubilee marked the first time a holy door had been opened by one pope and closed by another. Pope Francis’s death this year and the ...