As the Sisters of Christian Charity watched the white smoke rise from the Sistine Chapel in Rome May 8 and awaited the appearance of the new pope on the balcony of St. Pete ...

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

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On May 8, Father Thomas Joseph White, the American rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, was at St. Peter's Square with hundreds of thousands of people when white smoke rose out ...

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 ...

VATICAN CITY -- The temporary chimney atop the Sistine Chapel released a plume of white smoke on Thursday ... majority to elect a new pope for the Catholic Church. American Cardinal Robert Prevost ...

WASHINGTON — White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon, signaling that the College of Cardinals had elected a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic Church.

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Pope Leo XIV has been elected as the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church, marking a historic ... A band marches in St Peter's Square after white smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine ...

White smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica rang out on Thursday, ...