Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary and Vatican official, has been elected the new Pope and will be known as Pope Leo XIV. He stepped out onto the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica today to loud cheers from thousands gathered in St. Peter’s Square. At 69, Pope Leo XIV becomes the first American to…
The 133 cardinals decided May 8 after less than a day of voting on a new pope to lead the Catholic Church. White smoke emerge from the Sistine Chapel shortly after noon (EDT) and set off a wild celebration in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City. The pope is expected to be revealed early in…
Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signaling an inconclusive first vote by cardinals to elect a new pope to guide the Roman Catholic Church. The smoke is the only public sign of what is happening during the Papal Conclave, after the cardinals handed in their phones and took…
Pope Francis’ funeral has been set for Saturday at 10 a.m. local time in St. Peter’s Square, to be celebrated by the dean of the College of Cardinals. Cardinals met at the Vatican to schedule Pope Francis’ funeral and burial, planning the conclave to elect his successor and make other decisions about running the Catholic…
The Vatican says Pope Francis died of a stroke that put him into a coma and led to heart failure. The death was confirmed Monday by Dr. Andrea Arcangeli, the head of the Vatican’s health department. Francis, who suffered from chronic lung disease and had part of one lung removed as a young man, was…
