The clerk’s office discovered a Declaration of Intention form signed by Pope Leo XIV’s paternal grandfather, the first step in becoming a U.S. citizen.

Pope Leo XIV broke with a major security protocol when arriving in the official popemobile for his inaugural mass at the ...

It's traditional for the pope to live in the papal apartments. In 1903, Pope Pius X became the first pontiff to live in the apartments. Many were surprised by Francis' choice to live in Casa Santa ...

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII ... a “let’s wait and see” opinion on X, hoping that Leo wouldn’t advocate for ...

2.Pope Pius XII requested an "alternative" embalming method ... and he reportedly smelled so badly that the Swiss Guards had to be changed out every 15 minutes. 3.Pope Leo X received an elephant from ...

Since 1939 and the election of Pope Pius XII, an iron stove has been used to announce the election of a new pope via white smoke. “I’m just going to say it, that system is too ambiguous for ...

The previous pope, Pius X, had mandated in 1904 that all papers related to the election, not just the ballots, be burned, "thus producing a great deal more white smoke for the final ballot and ...

Pope Pius X\). Picture: Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Pope Leo XIII. Picture: ullstein bild via Getty Images He wanted the Catholic Church to be more active in communicating with the ...

The BBC has taken a look back at archive footage from the outcomes of previous conclaves, as far back as Pope Pius XII in 1939 through ... of the Irish Guards on X. The BBC's Laura Gozzi stood ...

Leo XIII became the first moving picture pope in July 1896, with successor Pius X being filmed in 1907 ... boyhood to his triumphal homecoming mass in Kraków in 1979. Combining archive material and ...

only two conclaves have lasted up to five days − Pope Pius XI's conclave in 1922 and Pope Pius X's conclave in 1903. A papal conclave is an election of a new pope conducted by the College of ...