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Live Updates: Black Smoke Signals That Cardinals Still Haven’t Chosen a Pope
While younger cardinals are busy choosing the new pope, older cardinals are mostly waiting it out like the rest of us ...
No pope named as black smoke rises on papal conclave's first day: May 7 recap
Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...
Who could succeed Pope Francis? We look at 10 possibilities, both LGBTQ-friendly and not
Potential successors come from all over the world and range from moderate to deeply conservative on LGBTQ+ issues.
Waiting for the Smoke That Heralds a New Pope
As 133 cardinals were sequestered in the Sistine Chapel where they would vote for a new leader of the Catholic Church, the ...
'A Pope in the tradition of Francis': From New York to Ghana, Catholics hope for continuity at the Vatican
Just days before the conclave to elect a new pope begins, on May 7, believers around the world expressed their desire for ...
New York Catholic Bishops Denounce Trump's AI Image As Pope: "Do Not Mock Us"
New York’s Catholic leaders have denounced President Donald Trump for his artificial intelligence-generated image of himself ...
Meet the US Catholic TV network that drew the ire of Pope Francis
As cardinals gather in Rome this week to select the next pope, global news networks covering every twist and turn will be ...
200 NY Catholics traveled to Rome to meet Pope Francis — and attended his funeral instead
Nearly 200 worshippers from the Archdiocese of New York, lead by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, hoped to meet Pope Francis on ...
New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan says choosing new pope will be "more difficult this time"
The eyes of the globe are on the Vatican as the conclave to elect the next pope is about to begin, and New York's Timothy ...