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

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 ...

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 ...

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

VATICAN CITY, — Robert Prevost, the new pope selected after Pope Francis' death, has chosen the name Leo, used by 13 popes ...

Like the other ceremonies and traditions that accompany the advent of a new pope, his newly chosen name will be imbued with ...

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.

The church officially recognizes St. Peter, the first pope, as the longest-serving, with at least 34 years. However, many ...

(Benedict X was declared an antipope, and expelled from the papal throne, hence the discrepancy in numbering for subsequent Benedicts.) How will the new pope’s name be announced? After white ...