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 ...

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 ...

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