When a new pope is elected, there are two signs that mark that historic moment: the white smoke from the chimney of the ...

Fight! “ The other introduced himself to the world with his first public word as pope: “Peace.” The contrast between ...

The United States is home to 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That's more than any other nation ...

The announcement: After a new pope is chosen, a senior cardinal steps onto a balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica and proclaims ...

Our analysis of betting markets suggested that he had only a 2% chance of election ... whom he then duly helped to install as Pope Gregory XIV. (Damasceni Peretti had big bills to pay: he is ...

The eventual winner, Gregory X, tightened up conclave rules. The longest conclave in modern times, in 1903, ended when Pope Pius X was chosen after five days. Most common pope names: John ...

Catholic Chicagoans gathered in churches, cheered from classrooms and celebrated from their homes as the historic decision ...

On Thursday morning, the cardinals resumed the process for Day 2 and, yet again ... took almost three years to choose Pope Gregory X. The shortest conclave on record, in 1503, took just 10 ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost elected first North American pontiff and will be called Pope Leo XIV - Pope Leo XIV emerged onto the ...

Explore historical trivia behind the longest conclave and the shortest, the oldest pope and the youngest and a handful of antipopes as well.