The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican’s ...

Watch video of the moment Cardinal Protodeacon Dominique Mamberti announced that the Cardinals had elected Cardinal Robert ...

Although any baptized Catholic man is technically eligible to be the pope, none of the previous 266 popes in history had been ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

Chicago is having a moment on social media as the Vatican unveils the first American-born pope, Robert Francis Prevost — now known as Pope Leo XIV. On X, many quick to spotlight that the new pontiff ...

A new pope has taken the helm of the Catholic Church, after being elected in a two-day conclave in Vatican City. Crowds of ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States of America has been elected the 267th Pope and will soon step onto the ...

Pope Leo XIV, the first U.S. pope in history, addressed the crowd at the Vatican Thursday shortly after white smoke billowed ...