White smoke has emerged from the Sistine Chapel chimney as crowds erupted in cheers and a bell tolled - signifying that 133 ...

White smoke emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican on Thursday, May 8, 2025, indicating that cardinals ...

From priests on pogos celebrating in St. Peter’s Square to the crowd outside St. Patrick’s in New York, the overwhelming ...

ROME – Cardinals elected Robert Francis Prevost as the new pope to lead the Catholic Church on Thursday. It took a little ...

Prime ministers, presidents and former presidents from across the political spectrum have come out to congratulate Cardinal ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney atop the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on Thursday, signalling that the 133 cardinals inside ...

Cardinals from around the world have elected the next pontiff, following the late Pope Francis' passing on 21 April. Follow ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was ...

Even former president Barack Obama congratulated the new pope as a “fellow Chicagoan.” He wrote: “This is a historic day for ...

On Thursday, May 8, the Vatican announced Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next pope. He is taking the name Pope Leo XIV. But ...

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Two Albany Catholic Diocese leaders spoke to reporters shortly after Pope Leo XIV made his first appearance in Vatican City's ...