The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags from many countries in celebration at the arrival of the news ...

Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

A PLUME of black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling the first ballot of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. He took the name Leo XIV.

Bells rang in St. Peter's Square and the crowd erupted in cheers on the second day of the papal conclave when white smoke billowed.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday begin the secretive, centuries-old ritual to elect a successor to Pope Francis, opening the most ...

The election came on the first full day of voting by the 133 cardinal electors, who secluded themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls on Wednesday afternoon ...

White smoke pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...