American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has been elected the new pope, after a puff of white smoke was seen.

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Jacksonville and St. Augustine Catholics reacted to the papal conclave’s choice of Pope Leo XIV. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.

Every weekday St. Ambrose Cathedral in Downtown Des Moines has a church service at noon. On Thursday, as people were walking ...

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

After less than 24 hours of seclusion in the Vatican, cardinals ended the 2025 papal conclave with the election of a new ...

VATICAN CITY -- Robert Prevost of the United States has been named the new pope, the new head of the Catholic church. Cardinals gathered to select their latest leader during a conclave. White smoke ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert ...

The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...