(AP Photo/Francisco ... out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church. More than 130 Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV gave his first homily at a Mass on Friday, one day after he was selected by a conclave of cardinals at the Vatican to lead the Catholic Church. The first U.S. pope in history said he ...

Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global ...

That Leo softened the church’s confrontational stance toward modernity, especially science and politics and laid the foundation for modern Catholic ... in the Sistine Chapel on Friday, planned ...

The cardinal electors of the Catholic Church elected an American on Thursday ... white smoke emerged from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, signaling that a new pope had been ...

one of the most important jobs in the Catholic Church. Just after noon on Thursday, the Vatican released white smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a new pope was selected.

The bells of St Peter's Basilica and churches across Rome rang out, indicating the 2,000-year-old Church ... Catholic faith is thriving. Before the cardinals were locked into the Sistine Chapel ...

sending billowing black smoke through the chapel chimney. This is a photo gallery curated by AP photo editors.

The red robes are worn by all 133 cardinals deliberating who will replace Pope Francis. The original reason cardinals started ...

the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold the Catholic cardinals as they cast their votes for the next leader of the Church. The renowned Sistine Chapel is a chapel within ...