Pope Leo XIV made his first trip outside Rome since being elected as leader of the Catholic Church. The pope was driven to ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

In his first audience with the press, the pontiff renewed his support for a more peaceful world and quoted his predecessor, ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

This is CBS News coverage of the election of Pope Leo XIV. Crowds in St. Peter's Square cheered as white smoke signaled a new ...

Pope Leo XIV stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to thunderous applause and an electric atmosphere, to ...

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV lived in St. Louis, Missouri, in the 1970s while studying to become a priest. He was in a parish ...

It’s hard to say precisely, since the Vatican doesn’t publish official data on the number of votes or tallies in past ...

Crowds gathered in St. Peter’s Square — and around the world — to see who had been elected as Pope Francis’ successor.

The Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

It took just two days for the College of Cardinals to elect a new Pope less than a month after the death of Francis ...