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May 7, 2025 - Read what you missed below and follow Thursday's live coverage. Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Latest news on the conclave that chose American Cardinal Robert Prevost to succeed Pope Francis as leader of the Catholic Church. He took the name Pope Leo XIV.

May 30, 2025 - The crowd erupts in jubilation as the announcement echoes across St. Peter’s Square. The conclave has concluded after requiring six ballots to reach the necessary two-thirds majority. BREAKING!

May 1, 2025 - Parish, diocesan, and Catholic school leaders often feel pressure to ‘say something’ during major Church events. But what if our papal conclave coverage could do more than inform? What if it could actually evangelize? It’s easy to fall into the trap of treating major Church events like breaking news.

March 11, 2013 - And it's just been this very symbiotic relationship between the two, the Vatican officials need the Italian reporters to be willing to do anything to win their internal fights. And it helps the reporters because they get news." So it's a question of looking at the byline. Who's breaking news that clearly required real sources that also turns out to come true?

July 30, 2025 - Thursday's live updates have ended. Follow live updates from Friday, May 9, 2025. Cardinal Robert Prevost has taken the name Leo XIV. The Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops was elected the first pope from the United States in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.

May 30, 2025 - Here’s a (non-exhaustive) look at what “Conclave” gets wrong — and gets right — about the process of electing a new pope:

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October 25, 2024 - For starters, it stars everyone from Stanley Tucci, Ralph Fiennes and John Lithgow as a gaggle of gossipy clergymen who've gathered for a pontifical election after the mysterious death of this film's pope: the traditional "conclave" in which ...

Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first day of the conclave.