Tag: papal conclave

For the first time in the Catholic Church’s history, cardinals have named an American to be the new pope. Robert Francis ...

Robert Prevost, the choice of the world’s Catholic cardinals to serve as leader of the 1.4-billion-member Church, is the first pope from the ...

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Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the Sistine Chapel ...

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

Cardinals have been sequestered in the Vatican ahead of the conclave Wednesday, where they will vote on who will be next ...