Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s.

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope. The Papal Conclave 2025 will start on Wednesday, May 7, with a A total of 133 ...

If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...

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

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

A bell is also rung, part of the ritual introduced when Pope Benedict XVI was elected, which confirms the smoke is white and ...

Pope Leo VIII technically came to power in 963, succeeding the brief and scandal-ridden papacy of John XII, and ruled in a ...