In this image taken on Monday, April 28, 2025, and made available Saturday, May 3, 2025, by Vatican Media, workers prepare the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, where the upcoming conclave will start ...

The Panmunjom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula was signed by the North and South Korean governments in 2018.

An Illinois state lawmaker proposed making license plates honoring Dolton-native Pope Leo XIV available to state residents, along with a statue of the pontiff near the state capitol building.

The Vatican later announced that a pope had been elected. By 2005, when John Paul II died, a more reliable system was devised that remains in use today.