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Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...
White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...
Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...
The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.
The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...
The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...
Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago will succeed Pope Francis as the leader of the Catholic Church. Prevost, the first ...
Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...
Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost became the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and ...
President Trump joked about becoming pope, but could he actually lead the Catholic church? Here's what it takes to become the ...