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MSNBC's Chris Jansing who has reported on the Vatican for 20 years and Award winning journalist Mike Barnicle discuss the ...

Robert Prevost, a missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, ...

White smoke billowed from the Sistine Chapel chimney in Vatican City Thursday as the world gathered to watch a new pope take ...

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Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of the United States has been elected the 267th pope and has stepped onto the balcony of St.