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 ...

When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Those who claimed the papal throne before him were Antipope John XXIII (who had convoked the Council of Constance and appointed most of the electors), Antipope Benedict XIII (the only one ...

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

(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 ...