The most-watched chimney in the world right now is the one attached to the Sistine Chapel, which signaled around noon E.T. on May 8 that a new pope has been chosen. Massive crowds cheered in ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected the new pope on May 8, becoming the first American to ever be named pontiff. He will go by the name Pope Leo XIV. The last pope to take the name Leo was Leo ...

White smoke appeared from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City, signifying one cardinal has received a majority vote to take the papacy. On Day 2 of the conclave, the cardinals of ...