The 2025 papal conclave at the Vatican ended with the election of American-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. Here ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church — and his papal name is Pope Leo XIV ...

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 ...

Pope Leo XIV has been elected following roughly 24 hours of deliberation among the 133-member College of Cardinals, the ...

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

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

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

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Cardinal Robert Prevost has become the Catholic Church’s new pope, Leo XIV. His election marks the first instance of an ...

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

Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected Pope Leo XIV to become the first pope from the US. Read a recap of the events of May 8.

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