News that the global Catholic Church would get its first U.S.-born pope was welcomed by Catholic students at Princeton and ...

As for Catholicism in the Central Valley, I know we have a bishop and many clergy that see the importance of meeting people ...

As white smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney at 6:08 p.m. May 8 in Vatican City, University of Iowa Catholic Studies ...

Born Robert Francis Prevost and raised in Chicago, he is the first American to ascend to the papacy. He is a product of an ...

Suddenly I heard the most beautiful noise I have ever heard in my life: the sound of tens of thousands of people cheering as ...

For over two thousand years, the papacy has been shaped by the bloodlines of Europe, an uninterrupted stream of spiritual authority flowing from Rome, passing through German, Polish, and Argentine ...

From sacred signals to life-saving insights, smoke color tells us more than we think ...

The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it.  It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first century ...

On May 8, John Prevost got a text saying there had been white smoke ... live stream from the Vatican on the phone, when her older brothers’ friend became the new pope. “Overjoyed and proud ...

White smoke appears from the Sistine Chapel, signaling a new pope has been elected Thousands of people cheered in Vatican Square when the smoke appeared. May 08, 2025, 11:42 AM GMT The science ...