The sports loyalties of Pope Leo XIV became a topic of conversation almost as soon as the white smoke emerged from the ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, left, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, appears on the central loggia of St. Peter's ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a US-born missionary and senior Vatican official, was elected pope on Thursday evening, becoming the ...

Catholics across the globe waited for that announcement, which came 67 minutes later: Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in history. The conclave of Cardinals came to this decision on ...

The electors cast paper ballots, and voting continues until one candidate receives a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. After voting, ballots are burned in a special stove — black smoke signals no ...

But many people in the square looked puzzled at first, and the complete lack of phone coverage meant that most couldn't look ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.

Father Christopher Brock, chaplain at Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School in Kernersville, says the election of an American ...

The papal conclave elected a new pope today in the fourth round of voting. Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, ...

"Francis was my pope for less than two days," said a new Catholic visiting from the U.S. "I wish he'd stayed longer, because ...