Tens of million of dollars were bet on who would lead world's Catholics, a practice frowned up on by the Church.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

Robert Francis Prevost becomes first American-born Pope after Italian Pietro Parolin surged in odds to take the vacant seat.

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis. The two share many of the same views on ...

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

Pope Leo XIV said “Peace be with you” in his first words as pope, offering a message of peace and dialogue “without fear.” ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV and is the first American pope in the church’s 2,000-year history.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

According to PBS News, white smoke is currently erupting from the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel chimney. Traditionally, this means ...

As the papal conclave concluded, bettors around the world to wagered most often on one cardinal to become the next leader of ...

There had long been a taboo against a U.S. pope, but Prevost, a Chicago native, was seemingly eligible also because he's a ...