Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

Prevost, who was promoted by Francis and has a knack for management and a zeal for missionary work, was a stronger candidate ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Eighteen days after Pope Francis last appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, his successor -- the 267th pope -- ...

American Cardinal Robert Prevost was shortly thereafter announced as the 267th pontiff. He chose the name Leo XIV, a senior ...

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, an ally of President Donald Trump, played the role of “kingmaker” in the selection of Pope ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Despite some disappointment, hopes were still high that a pope would be chosen quickly, perhaps as early as Thursday ...

With the papal conclave under way in the Vatican to select a new pope, many at Holy Name Cathedral prayed Wednesday for the ...

Black smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first day of ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected as the new pope of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the conclave. His papal ...