An estimated 45,000 people gathered in St Peter's Square on Wednesday to await the results of the first papal conclave vote in Vatican City.

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Close to home, parishioners attended mass to celebrate their new pontiff, Robert Prevost, who chose the name Pope Leo XIV.

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th ...