Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Isabella Bonotto/Anadolu Agency via Getty Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost poses for pictures at the end of the consistory during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When the new pope was chosen, a Vatican official burned the paper ballots to make white smoke rise from a chimney on the roof of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first American Pope, Leo XIV, has spoken about the role of women in the Catholic Church. In an interview with Vatican News in ...

A new pope has risen. While technically any baptized Catholic man is eligible for the papacy, only a relative handful of cardinals were considered serious candidates to succeed Francis—or, as some of ...

On the second day of the conclave, the 133 cardinals elected the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, is the new pope and has taken the name ...

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After several days of worldwide anticipation, Robert Francis Prevost has been announced as the newly elected Pope. It's a historical selection, with the Vatican choosing the first pope from the United ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost – now known as Pope Leo XIV — is the first pope from the United States. The 69-year-old from Chicago is known as a leader with global experience. He spent much of his ...

For the first time, the pope is from the United States. The world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics have a new spiritual leader, the 267th pontiff to lead the nearly 2,000-year-old church. Robert Francis ...

Rome (CNN) — Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost has made history. The newly elected pontiff, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is the first pope from the United States, and the new leader of the world’s 1.4 ...

For the first time in history, an American has been elected as Pope. The idea of an American pope has often been dismissed, even by theologians in the United States in the run-up to this week’s ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis brought Robert Prevost to the Vatican in 2023 as the powerful head of the office that vets bishop nominations, one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church.