Europe EditionCardinals elect new Pope as white smoke rises from Vatican
- On Thursday, May 8, 2025, the Vatican revealed that Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was chosen as Pope Leo XIV, becoming the 267th pope and the first from the United States.
- The election followed Pope Francis's death on April 21, 2025, and a conclave starting on May 7 with 133 cardinals voting in Rome’s Sistine Chapel.
- Prevost, a moderate close to Pope Francis, spent most of his life ministering in Peru and led the Dicastery for Bishops overseeing global bishop appointments.
- White smoke emerged shortly after 5 p.m. BST from the Sistine Chapel to signal Prevost’s election by a two-thirds majority amid ringing bells and cheering crowds.
- As Pope Leo XIV, Prevost faces leading the Church’s 1.4 billion members while deciding whether to continue reforms and promote unity, reflected in his motto 'In illo uno unum'.
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A Utah Catholic commentator’s wishes for the new pope
Instead of tuning into Instagram, TikTok or YouTube for the past few days, millions (and maybe billions) of world citizens have been squinting at their cellphones trying to detect whether a makeshift metal chimney jutting from a 500-year-old chapel in Rome breathed out white or black smoke.
After four votes and two thirds of the cardinal's body, the new pontiff was elected on the second day of the conclave.
Habemus papam! On the day when the Conclave began for the election of the new pope of the Catholic Church, after the death of Francis by a stroke, the new high pontiff was chosen. It was at 10:08 a.m. this Thursday, May 8, when white smoke came out of the Sistine Chapel and the bells of St. Peter’s Basilica rang to announce that a new leader of the Catholic Church is already being held. The 133 cardinals who met in the Conclave finally elected t…
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