Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic ...

Live updates and latest news as the first North American pope steps into his role as the new leader of the Catholic Church.

White smoke has emerged from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a new pope has been elected to lead the Roman ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

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C atholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Pope Leo XIV (formerly Robert Francis Prevost) and other cardinals adhered to many restrictions while inside the conclave.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, spoke with ABC7 Friday to reflect on his first papal conclave and the ...