The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been John, first chosen in 523 by Saint John I, the Vatican says. The last pope to choose that name was Italian Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope John XXIII, in 1958. Roncalli was proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in 2014.

Cardinal Robert Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester in Minnesota who traveled to Rome for the papal conclave, relayed the words of Cardinal Francis George, the former American prelate, to CBS News right after Leo’s election last week.

White smoke emerged from the Sistine Chapel Thursday afternoon, signaling the selection of Pope Francis’s successor and an end to the conclave that began two days prior. The new Pope, who has yet to be announced, was selected by a group of 133 cardinals ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new pope, Leo XIV.

It took just two days for the College of Cardinals to elect a new Pope less than a month after the death of Francis

The Seahawks made the Super Bowl during the last two new Papal elections... could they be going for a hat trick?

New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, an ally of President Donald Trump, played the role of “kingmaker” in the selection of Pope Leo XIV, according to a Friday report. The Italian magazine il Giornale got hold of some of the first reports of intrigue from the secretive conclave that selected Leo as the first American pope

President Donald Trump reacted to the selection of the new pope and leader of the Catholic Church on Thursday.

In a post on Truth Social Sunday, the president claimed that ABC News’s chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz had suggested that he’d had absolutely nothing to do with the selection of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost to be the next leader of the Catholic church.

The College of Cardinals was set to begin its election of the next pope Wednesday in Rome following the death of Pope Francis on April 21.

Rev. Richard Wilson at St. Mary Help of Christians Catholic Church in Aiken said he’s excited about Robert Prevost gaining the support from other cardinals to become pope.

As the world learned of the election of the first American pope, Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger spoke of the need to listen to the youth to determine the church's future direction.