The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

A new Pope has been selected, and with the selection comes a major historic moment that excited local members of the Catholic ...

The new pope, Chicago-born Robert Prevost, has taken the name Pope Leo XIV. White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel on ...

Chicago native Robert Prevost has been elected pope, becoming the first U.S.-born pontiff in a historic move that defies ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) celebrated the Thursday selection of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native formerly known as ...

Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops ...

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested in connection with an explosive device that was ignited at a church earlier this week ...

The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica ...