The electors cast paper ballots, and voting continues until one candidate receives a two-thirds majority, or 89 votes. After voting, ballots are burned in a special stove — black smoke signals no ...

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The white smoke signal at the Vatican Thursday signified that the Catholic Church has a new pope. Students at St. Dominic ...

White smoke streamed from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signaling to the world that the 133 cardinals inside have ...

As Catholics from around the world were watching the white smoke pour out of the chimney in the Vatican, students in Toledo ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, was elected the first pope from the United States on the second day of the conclave Thursday.Leo was born in Chicago and has dual citizenship in the United ...

Tributes from around the globe are pouring in after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as the 267th pontiff of the ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

Father Christopher Brock, chaplain at Bishop McGuiness Catholic High School in Kernersville, says the election of an American ...

We have a pope! I join with Catholics in the Archdiocese of Boston and throughout the world, along with people of good will, ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was ...

While cardinals were electing Pope Leo XIV in Vatican City, a group of Philadelphia students were selecting a pontiff of ...