VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has taken over the Vatican’s official social media handles, with a first Instagram post on ...

As cardinals gather to elect a new pope, external influences and controversies shape the conclave. Allegations against ...

Throughout history, there has been no shortage of outside attempts to influence the outcome of a conclave to elect a new pope, either by European monarchs, Italy’s noble families or even Romans who ...

More than 1.3 million tweets have been published on X about the conclave, according to monitoring platform Visibrain, while TikTok videos on the topic have been viewed over 363 million times ...

Conclave fever is also a reflection of the Vatican's successful turn to digital communications in recent years ...

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church’s ... but also secrecy and mystery” cannily nurtured by the Vatican, agreed Stephanie Laporte, founder of digital strategy ...