Pope Leo XIV has been captured holding a baby and waving to gargantuan crowds as world leaders gather for his inauguration.

A senior cardinal has urged the cardinals voting in a conclave to elect a pope who prizes unity in diversity, and puts ...

He said the new pope must foster communion and unity within the ... They took up their seats around the main altar, which lies above the traditional burial place of St. Peter, considered to ...

The cardinals preparing to elect a new pope must strengthen communion in the Catholic Church, promoting a form of unity that has nothing to do with uniformity and everything to d ...

Pope Leo XIV, in his inaugural Mass, cast a vision of a united church that offers God's unconditional love to everyone. He ...

As cardinals gather to elect Pope Francis’ successor ... sometimes look as ideologically polarized as many secular voters around the globe. At first glance, they appear to split along the ...

In the splendor of St. Peter’s Basilica, with the sunshine glinting across the bronze canopy that towers over the main altar ... s Basilica was snaking around the square and stretched as ...

By Friday morning, more than 128,000 mourners had filed past Francis's open coffin placed in front of the main altar of St Peter ... More vast crowds will gather for Saturday’s funeral ...

Around 400,000 people packed St Peter's Square ... as children placed baskets of flowers at the altar and a choir sang prayers. The marble tomb of the Catholic Church's first Latin American ...