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Pope Leo XIV is marking his first 100 days in office, showing a mix of continuity with and change from Pope Francis' papacy.
Mel Gibson discusses the 1958 Vatican Conclave on Joe Rogan, highlighting secretive voting, unexpected white smoke, and the surprise election of Pope John XXIII—fueling intrigue and Church controversy ...
Pope Leo XIV accepted a gift of an Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Champions hat from the city's Archbishop Nelson Jesus Pérez at the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican ...
Castel Gandolfo is also home to one of the Holy See’s more unexpected institutions: the Vatican Observatory, which since its ...
“No other religion goes as hard”: Did Pope Crave, the “Conclave” parody account on X, recieve official Vatican credentials? “Easily one of the coolest social media journeys I’ve ...
The Vatican is, among other things, a court, and many of the courtiers (near the conclave but not in it, and therefore not under the oath of secrecy) had their own means of piecing together and ...
The Vatican secretary of state, the equivalent of a prime minister, is still Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Pope Francis' pick who was himself an unsuccessful contender in the conclave that elected Leo ...
During the recent Vatican conclave, Robert Francis Prevost emerged with the necessary amount of support from his fellow cardinals to become Pope Leo XIV. Seeing a new world leader emerge whether ...
Besides Prevost’s Vatican offices and others’, we get glimpses of Francis’ apartment in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, the Vatican guest house and even the conclave itself.
CHICAGO – The city’s favorite son delivered a fastball straight from the Vatican. Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago in 1955, spoke in a video message to tens of thousands of spectators at Rate ...
Pope Leo XIV names first Chinese bishop, signaling he is continuing Vatican’s controversial accord China’s estimated 12 million Catholics have been divided between an official, state ...