There were 133 voting cardinals, marking history as the most electors to date. On day two of the conclave, white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel's chimney, signaling that a new pontiff had been ...

Leo XIV’s predecessor Pope Francis, birth name Jorge Maria Bergoglio, appointed 80% of the cardinals who voted to elect one ...

A U.S. bishop thought it was unlikely that Catholic cardinals would break with more than two centuries of precedent to pick a ...

Pope Leo XIV has been known as the “Latin Yankee” in Rome for the decades he worked in Peru, ministering to the dispossessed ...

Prevost, 69, took the name Leo XIV. He grew up in Dolton and attended St. Mary of the Assumption. A childhood friend said ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was announced as the next pope, becoming the first American leader of the Catholic Church, ...

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On day two of the conclave and after only four rounds of voting, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and will be known as ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost's personal trainer discovered his true identity only after the conclave. Valerio Masella, who had ...