For the first time, there's a US pope. Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost, is from Chicago and is a citizen of Peru.

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the conclave. Follow here for the latest.

The longest conclave in history, in the 13th century, lasted two years and nine months. Thankfully, since the beginning of ...

St Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, also holds a number of special services each year, and some are open to the public. It’s very hard not to be enthusiastic working at the Abbey. If this place ...

Cardinals have returned to the Sistine Chapel to resume voting for a new pope after a billow of black smoke signalled that ...