The smoke signal means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a ...

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After the white smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel and the world learned that Pope Leo XIV would lead the church, Catholics ...

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Robert Francis Prevost has become the first pope from the United States, picking the papal name Leo XIV after cardinals from ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signalling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.