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

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

If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...

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