Vatican City — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, is a Villanova graduate. He is the first American pope elected in the 2,000-year ...

Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new ...

This is a moment of hope and renewal for the church," Burns said as faith leaders celebrated the election of the first-ever U.S.-born pope.

Leo XIV first set foot in Peru some four decades ago as a missionary, before becoming bishop of the diocese of Chiclayo in ...

VILLANOVA, PA — The bells have stopped ringing at St. Thomas Church at Villanova University ... sat with her friend America Morrobel in the student center on a rainy Friday.

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The bells have rung in St Peter's Square as cardinals have successfully elected a successor to Pope Francis. Robert Prevost, who will take the papal name Pope L ...

MAGA voices were ringing alarms louder than the tolling bells in St. Peter's Square after white smoke heralded the selection ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward ... the most Catholics and counting North, Central and South America had 37 cardinal electors going into the conclave.The bells of the ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a new pope.