The Catholic Church has elected its first American pope in history: Cardinal Robert Prevost. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

On day two of the conclave and after only three rounds of voting, Cardinal Robert Prevost was elected and will be known as ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

The Reverend James Bretzke, a theology professor at John Carroll University in Ohio, told USA Today this week that a diplomat ...

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it was a “great honor” to have struck a trade agreement with Britain, predicting ...

Watch live to see the moment the new pope is revealed - he's expected to step out onto the balcony overlooking St Peter's ...

The new pope and head of the Catholic Church has officially been named after two days of deliberations. Pope Francis' ...

From solemn prayers to joyous smiles, staff and clergy of the archdiocesan pastoral center gathered as the announcement of ...

Robert Francis Prevost was chosen on Thursday, May 8, to succeed Pope Francis as the head of the Catholic Church.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers, were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

Pope Leo XIV—the American Robert Francis Prevost—was a close ally of Pope Francis. The two share many of the same views on ...