How is a new pope chosen? The papal conclave process explained.

The secretive process will see Catholic cardinals vote on who will become the new pope and take the reins of the 1.39 billion ...

Papal roots in the Crescent City: Exhibit uncovers Pope Leo XIV's Louisiana lineage

A new exhibit at the Old Ursuline Convent Museum traces the Pope’s Creole ancestry through centuries of New Orleans church ...
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Vatican: White Smoke Rises From Sistine Chapel as New Pope Elected

On Thursday, May 8, 133 cardinals from around the world elected Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV at the Sistine Chapel during the Conclave, making him the first US-born Pope in the ...
The Atlantic

HABEMUS PAPAM — Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio Becomes Pope Francis

UPDATE: (3:25 p.m.): Here he is. His first words to the faithful were: "It seems to me that my brothers and cardinals have chosen one who is from far away, but here I am." UPDATE (3:21 p.m.): ...
Scientific American

The Math That Predicted the New Pope

When Pope Francis died in April on Easter Monday, the news triggered not only an outpouring of mourners but also a centuries-old tradition shrouded in secrecy: the papal conclave. Two weeks later 133 ...