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Pope Leo XIV holds inaugural Mass at St Peter’s Square in front of 250,000
Pontiff arrives into St Peter’s Square on popemobile for service marking the official start of his papacy
The financial heavyweight, the media guru and the abuse investigator: What next for top Irish Vatican clerics under Pope Leo XIV?
Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff
Inside the conclave: how a quiet American became pope
Cardinals and Vatican insiders tell the story of how a swift consensus built around the relatively unknown Robert Prevost
‘Never again war’: Pope Leo interrupts St Peter’s Square revelry with pleas for peace in Ukraine and Gaza
Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’
Pope Leo XIV sets out vision for papacy and cites AI as critical challenge facing humanity
Leo tells first formal audience he will follow in the modernising reforms of Pope Francis
‘Bob the Pope’ considered ‘a safe pair of hands’ by Irish priest who knew the new Pope Leo XIV
Pontiff’s successor as head of Augustinians recalls a man who is ‘humble, listens, lets everybody do their jobs’
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the Cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
Pope Leo XIV says Catholic Church must illuminate ‘dark nights of this world’
Pope laments the valuing of money, success and power over Christian faith
Pope Leo XIV in Ireland: Unassuming and personable, he answered emails on the friary stairs
The key to understanding the former Bob Prevost, say those who met him in Ireland, is not as an American pope or a liberal or conservative one, but as a South American one
Pope Leo XIV: Irish-American Catholic community celebrate the rise of one of their own to the papacy
On Chicago’s southeast side election of first US pope seen as ‘a great message of hope’
Pope Leo’s social conscience won’t go down well with JD Vance and Maga America
Pope Leo XIV accurately reflects the Catholic Church’s position in the developing world, where it is growing fastest
‘I don’t think he’ll be the silent one’: Pope Leo XIV‘s brother reflects on his values and roots
John Prevost said that his brother was ‘simple, really. He’s not going to go out for a 19-course meal’
Skorts: Newstalk’s Andrea Gilligan gives the Camogie Association’s pig-headedness short shrift
Radio: The Newstalk host covers the camogie controversy in her signature style
Pope Leo XIV: American cardinal Robert Prevost elected as new pope - as it happened
Cardinals choose new pontiff after fourth vote at the Vatican
Pope Leo XIV: First US-born pontiff addresses the faithful in St Peter’s Square
Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago unlikely choice as 267th pope, but seen as champion of migrants and poor
‘It’s like our Olympics’: Irish priests among stunned faithful in St Peter’s Square as Pope Leo XIV emerges
Many were surprised at choice of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, but hoped he would carry on legacy of Pope Francis
Who is Robert Prevost? The American cardinal who is the new Pope Leo XIV
Chicago-born moderate served in Peru for two decades before taking influential Vatican posts
Meet the ‘Papabiles’: The six men who could become the next pope
Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks
Papal conclave: ‘I dread the day I think that’s about to arrive when I’m going to be older than the pope’
As the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel took their oaths, a crowd of all ages gathered in St Peter’s Square
Papal conclave: Black smoke emerges from Sistine Chapel, signalling no new pope elected
Cardinals to reconvene tomorrow for further ballots
The papabiles: Who are the contenders to become the 267th pope?
Even at this late stage, it remains unclear who is most likely to become the Catholic Church’s next leader
Irish Times readers on the Catholic Church: ‘I am very proud to be a Roman Catholic in Ireland today’
As the conclave to choose the next pope begins, our readers share their views
Conclave: why this papal election is the hardest to call in decades
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Watch for white smoke begins in Vatican City as conclave meets to elect new pontiff
Ballots of 133 voting cardinals burned after each vote with black smoke signalling no agreement
The Irish Times view on the papal conclave: an unpredictable contest
The saying that ‘he who e’ters a conclave as pope exits as a cardinal” augurs badly for frontrunners
Conclave explained: A graphical guide to the election of a pope
Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday
Here’s a job for the next pope. Deliver us from climate apathy
We will not make the necessary climate leap if divisions continue - between rite and reason, left and right, rural and urban or young and old
The Irish disapora and its role in electing the successor to Pope Francis this week
Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday
Trump draws ire of US bishops with AI image of himself as pope ahead of papal conclave
‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders
Watch: Vatican releases video showing preparations in Sistine Chapel ahead of papal conclave
Cardinals have held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings over next pontiff
Vatican workers install chimney on Sistine Chapel in advance of papal election
Chimney will be used by the conclave that will elect the successor of Pope Francis
Smartphones at Pope Francis’s funeral didn’t feel out place to me. It’s 2025
We love to plonk a dead relative in the sittingroom for a day or two
Is nothing sacred, even at a pope’s funeral?
We are at a very strange moment in our cultural evolution – one that threatens the very possibility of spiritual experience
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