Amid the anticipation, one question is also resurfacing: Who exactly are the antipopes? An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected ...

Up on its rock on the Valencian coast, Peñíscola strikes an imposing figure 64 metres above the waves. A fishing village with a former Templar stronghold that became a refuge for an antipope, the town ...

Newly elected as pope, Robert Prevost has chosen Leo XIV as his papal name. No pope has been named Leo since the early 1900s. The most recent, Pope Leo XIII, served as supreme pontiff from 1878 to ...