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

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

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

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 ...

The campaigns to sway the outcome of a highly uncertain conclave started minutes after the announcement of Pope Francis' ...

"Everyone on social ... of the pope's influence on hundreds of millions, even billions of people, whether it's in his stance ...

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 ...

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 ...