SOAVE, Italy (AP) — The announcement that an American cardinal had been elected Roman Catholic Church’s 267th pope had special meaning for a group of students at an international Catholic school in ...
On May 8—the second day of the conclave—at Santa Marta, the cardinals have a continental breakfast between 6:30 and 7:30 a.m. Cardinal Timothy Dolan sits at a table with his jar of peanut butter that ...
Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, born in Chicago, has been elected Pope Leo XIV, making history as the first American to lead the Catholic Church. The appointment came in 2023 following Pope Francis’s ...
Vatican City • In retrospect, Pope Leo XIV had it all going for him. The new pope, whose election on the second day of the conclave stunned the Roman Catholic world, seemed to be from two places at ...
Christoph Sator, Robert Messer and Martina Herzog, dpa May 8, 2025 May 8, 2025 ROME — The Catholic Church has a new pope: Chicago Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Thursday after four rounds ...
The first American pope in the history of the Catholic Church was elected on Thursday. The Vatican announced Cardinal Robert Prevost as the next pope. Milwaukee Catholics are celebrating Pope Leo XIV, ...
As newly elected Pope Leo XIV — a native son of Chicago — made his first appearance on the loggia at St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Blase Cupich looked on from an adjacent balcony, keenly aware of the ...
Christoph Sator, Robert Messer and Martina Herzog, dpa May 8, 2025 May 8, 2025 ROME — The Catholic Church has a new pope: Chicago Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected Thursday as the new head ...
When observers witnessed white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope had been chosen, most expected that the late Pope Francis’s successor would hail from Europe. It came ...