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

Another longtime friend, the Rev. Robert Hagan, said that Robert Prevost was his mentor and superior when he was studying to become a priest in Racine, Wis., in the late 1990s. They watched Chicago ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chape l and St. Peter's bells chimed around 6 p.m. local time in Rome on May 8, ...

Over an hour after the white smoke emerged, the new pope, clad in his papal vestments, stepped out onto the balcony and ...

New Yorkers and tourists alike are flocking to churches across New York City and the Tri-State to celebrate the news of the ...

White smoke billowed over the Vatican on Thursday to signal a cardinal has been elected as the 267th leader of the Catholic ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first U.S. pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church, previously led a Catholic ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who led the Vatican office that selects and manages bishops around the world, has spent much of his ...

The election of a first North American pontiff came after the death of the first Latin American pope and signaled a ...

With clouds of white smoke emanating from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel and to the loud cheers of thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square, the 133-member conclave elected a new pope on Thursday ...

Their father was a leader of Israel and just appointed high priest in the tabernacle. The two eldest sons were regarded as industrious, efficient, creative — the adjectives just go on.