Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

White smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been elected to lead the Roman ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

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Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...

However, for centuries, popes have only been chosen from among the Catholic cardinals, the church's most senior officials. The conclave takes place in the Sistine Chapel, behind sealed doors.