As pope, Leo XIV has focused clearly on peace policy, swiftly addressing the Ukraine and Gaza wars. He thus joins the ...

American author, speaker and theologian Bishop Robert Barron was at the Vatican this week to witness the election of a new pope, and he shared his thoughts with Fox News Digital about Cardinal ...

“We didn’t expect an American to be Pope,” Gregory Treverton, a USC Professor, said. Treverton is a professor of international relations at the University of Southern California and a former ...

The longest one ever, in the 13th century, took almost three years to choose Pope Gregory X. The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III. How long was the ...

Cardinal Robert Prévost, 69, was elected pope just after noon CT. This marks the first pope from the United States. Prévost will go by the papal name Pope Leo XIV. White smoke was seen above the ...

The longest conclave on record dragged on for nearly three years. Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271 after about 1,000 days.

The tactic worked. The conclave finally produced a pope: Gregory X. The election was the first to be resolved by compromise, a method allowed under Church law whereby a small committee of ...

Roncalli was proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in 2014. Other frequently used names include Gregory, in honor of Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great (590-604). The last to ...

After the Pierleonis’ choice became Pope Celestine III, the Frangipanis burst into the church with an armed force, demanding they pick their favorite cardinal instead. In 1241, Pope Gregory IX ...

Bruno of Carinthia (in what is now Austria) took the name Gregory V upon being ... conclave in 1378 elected him pope, 647 years ago. He took the name Urban VII. In 1513, Cardinal Giovanni di ...

Those who arrived early to score spots at the barricades closest to the front of St. Peter’s Basilica draped flags from ... The pope who came out of that election, Gregory X, decreed in 1274 ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 ... The most prominent antipopes during the Western Schism were Clement VII, Benedict XIII, Alexander V, and John XXIII.