The Vatican

Fr Gabriel Romanelli used to receive daily calls from the late Pope Francis

There are bittersweet elements to emigration too, such as re-learning to be Irish, as Laura Kennedy learns

Pontiff arrives into St Peter’s Square on popemobile for service marking the official start of his papacy

Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff

Cardinals and Vatican insiders tell the story of how a swift consensus built around the relatively unknown Robert Prevost

Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’

Leo tells first formal audience he will follow in the modernising reforms of Pope Francis

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

Pope laments the valuing of money, success and power over Christian faith

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

On Chicago’s southeast side election of first US pope seen as ‘a great message of hope’

Pope Leo XIV accurately reflects the Catholic Church’s position in the developing world, where it is growing fastest

John Prevost said that his brother was ‘simple, really. He’s not going to go out for a 19-course meal’

Radio: The Newstalk host covers the camogie controversy in her signature style

Cardinals choose new pontiff after fourth vote at the Vatican

Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago unlikely choice as 267th pope, but seen as champion of migrants and poor

Many were surprised at choice of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, but hoped he would carry on legacy of Pope Francis

Chicago-born moderate served in Peru for two decades before taking influential Vatican posts

Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks

As the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel took their oaths, a crowd of all ages gathered in St Peter’s Square

Cardinals to reconvene tomorrow for further ballots

Even at this late stage, it remains unclear who is most likely to become the Catholic Church’s next leader

As the conclave to choose the next pope begins, our readers share their views

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Ballots of 133 voting cardinals burned after each vote with black smoke signalling no agreement

The saying that ‘he who e’ters a conclave as pope exits as a cardinal” augurs badly for frontrunners

Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday

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

Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday

‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders

Cardinals have held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings over next pontiff

Chimney will be used by the conclave that will elect the successor of Pope Francis

We love to plonk a dead relative in the sittingroom for a day or two

We are at a very strange moment in our cultural evolution – one that threatens the very possibility of spiritual experience

Resignation followed allegations he failed to deal adequately with child sexual abuse claims

Likely issues include finances, sliding church attendance and growing hole in the pension fund

Conclave start date decided during closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican

Where LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminism

Some 200,000 participate in second Mass following Francis’s death