Pope Francis died Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced. Here are some frontrunners to replace him. By The Associated Press • Published April 21, 2025 • Updated on April 21, 2025 at 6 ...

VATICAN CITY, March 14, 2013— -- There was not a "dry eye in the house" at the Sistine Chapel the moment when former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the next pope, with the 115 ...

Francis kept Ouellet in the job until 2023, even though he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI, and thus helped select the more doctrinaire bishops preferred by the German pontiff.

He was formally installed on May 9, the day after Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago native, was selected as the next pope following Pope Francis’ death on April 21. At the time the late pope ...

Barely a week after he attended the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome, President Trump posted an AI image of himself as the next pope, just days before the papal conclave was set to begin on May 7.

While Pope Francis was the first non-European pope in more than 1,200 years and the first Latin American pope, there’s a good chance the next pope will also make history.

Sadly, this is still true. Pope Francis cleans the sky from pollution in graffiti by the artist Maupal, inspired by “Laudato Si’.” (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) ...

"Laudato Si' at 10. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis' landmark encyclical, "Laudato Si', On Care for Our Common Home,” issued on May 24, 2015, Pentecost Sunday.