In the lead-up to Pope Leo XIV’s election, there was much speculation about how the new pontiff would compare to his ...

Pope Francis has been laid to rest, the conclave has been assembled and, after due deliberation by the participating cardinals, the world at last has seen white smoke wafting from the Sistine Chapel ...

Newly elected Pope Benedict XVI has asked the world to pray for him ... Clad in white papal vestments and a short red cape, the 78-year-old then delivered his first blessing to the city of Rome ...

As the papal conclave ends with the emergence of white smoke from the Sistine Chapel to signify the selection of a new pope, tailors are creating the papal vestments — the pope's official attire.

In recent days, many have swung by central Rome’s famed tailors before the conclave to browse and buy refined clerical vestments ... a cheap light wool. Pope Benedict XVI used more elegant ...

Pope Francis joined tens of thousands of faithful in bidding farewell to Benedict XVI at a rare requiem Mass ... Wearing the crimson vestments typical of papal funerals, Francis opened the service ...

The new Pope will don the white vestments as he addresses an expected ... and has dressed three different Popes: John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and Francis. Meanwhile, Cardinal Paolo Romeo ...

with more than a quarter-century passing between the election of Pope John Paul II in October 1978 and that of his successor, Benedict XVI, in April 2005. And now as then, longstanding tradition ...