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.

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

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

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 ...

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

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Cardinals have returned to the Sistine Chapel for the second day of the secretive process to elect the next leader of the ...

The election of the new pope is the most secretive democratic process in the world, with even its name - from the Latin 'cum ...

It is a suspense-filled thriller steeped in mystery, history and political intrigue - not the Oscar-winning Hollywood movie, ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan ...

Pope Francis made history with his election in 2013 as the first Latin American as well as the first Jesuit ever elected.

The last was Pope Clement VII, who was elected in 1523 at the age of 44 ... The last Frenchman elected was Pope Gregory XI, ...