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White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic Church.

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Cardinal Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, becomes first US-born pope - The faithful cheered in the Vatican square, waving flags ...

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke again billowed out of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, the second day of the conclave, indicating that no new pontiff has been chosen after the second or third ballots.

When white smoke began pouring from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney Thursday after as few as four ballots, many assumed that meant the sitting Catholic cardinals had selected the consensus frontrunner ...

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