Pope Leo made history by becoming the first American pope and his papacy has been marked by another break from tradition.

Like Leo, it begat a procession of memes solely based on our first glimpse of Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII, the fictional first U.S.-born pontiff, played by a British actor. When the previously ...

Since 1939 and the election of Pope Pius XII, an iron stove has been used to announce the election of a new pope via white smoke. “I’m just going to say it, that system is too ambiguous for ...

Several popes have explicitly paid homage to Leo XIII’s writings. In 1931, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical “Quadragesimo Anno,” or “40th Anniversary,” commemorating Rerum Novarum’s ...

Leo X, who became pope aged 37, was even younger than Jude Law's fictional character Pope Pius XIII in the 2016 television drama The Young Pope. Despite his youthful age, Pope Leo X's papacy was ...

The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III. How long was the conclave that elected Pope Francis? The conclave that elected Pope Francis began on March 12 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case ... ending with the election of Pius XI in 1922. The shortest was the conclave that elected Pius XII in 1939, which ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — How long does it take to choose a pope? In this case ... ending with the election of Pius XI in 1922. The shortest was the conclave that elected Pius XII in 1939, which ...

and Pope Pius XII, elected in 1939 won on the third ballot. A pope is decided after a man receives a two-thirds majority by the voting body, which comprises eligible voters in the College of ...