The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation ...

Robert Prevost's election as the new pope marks the first time a person from the United States was selected as the head of ...

On Thursday, the election of the first American-born pope brought excitement to many Catholics across metro Atlanta. “I think ...

Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost, 69, was elected and accepted his fate as the next Bishop of Rome, leader of the world's 1.4 billion ... three years to choose Pope Gregory X.

Behind closed doors in the chapel, they will hold as many rounds of voting as prove necessary to select the 267th leader of the world's 1.4 billion ... conclave, Pope Gregory X was finally elected ...

∎ The secretive process is expected to take multiple days and will result in new leadership for the world's ... Pope Pius X was chosen after five days. Most common pope names: John, Gregory ...

The conclave will start behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday afternoon, with all cardinals under the age of 80 able to vote on who should be the next leader of the 1.4 ...

Here are some facts about conclaves past, derived from historical studies including Miles Pattenden's “Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700,” and interviews with experts ...

But it has not always been so quick: The conclave that ended with the election of Pope Gregory X on Sept. 1, 1271, took two years, nine months and two days. The period between the death of a pope ...