Catholic cardinals have reconvened in the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to continue their effort to elect a new ...

Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, right, in Jakarta, Indonesia, last September. He has long been seen as a front-runner to be pope.Credit...Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle ...

A chimney above the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican will signal the election of a new pope and leader of the Catholic Church.

All eyes are on the chimney over the Sistine Chapel for signs of white smoke that will herald the election of a new pope.

This story has been updated. The Catholic Church and its approximately 1.4 billion followers have a new leader and the first ...

and that September, Francis appointed him as Cardinal, per the Vatican. The new pope's chosen papal name, Leo, follows a long tradition dating back to St. Leo I, who died in 461.

He was elevated by Pope Francis to the rank of Cardinal in September 2023. Addressing the faithful in St. Peter's Square in Italian and Spanish, Prevost is the first pope to be a native English ...