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04/24/2026

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07/03/2025

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05/08/2025

: Just after 6 p.m. today in Italy, a plume of white smoke rose from the roof of the Sistine Chapel, signaling to millions of observers in Vatican City and around the world that a new leader of the Catholic Church has been chosen. As the highly anticipated conclave came to a close, bells rang out over St. Peter’s Square and crowds of onlookers jumped for joy and prayed in celebration.

“Peace be with all of you,” declared the newly elected pope as he took to the Vatican’s balcony on the evening of May 8. But who is Robert Prevost, from today better known as Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff?

Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost has close ties to Peru where he served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, teacher, and administrator in the 1980s and 1990s, returning as Bishop of Chiclayo between 2015 and 2023. We can only assume that Pope Francis, who himself was the first Latin American pope, would approve of cardinals’ choice. Prevost won the favor of his predecessor, who appointed him to the prominent role of Prefect for the Dicastery for Bishops in 2023.

So what exactly went on while 133 cardinals from across the world were casting their vote? Though the inner workings of the papal conclave remain shrouded in secrecy, the desire to witness and understand what unfolds inside has endured for generations—giving rise not only to crowds in St. Peter’s Square, but also to an entire tradition of art, maps, and guidebooks created to glimpse the unseeable.

Read more: https://bit.ly/3Sryaxb

Article by Jo Lawson-Tancred

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Pictured: Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost, arrives on the main central loggia balcony of the St Peter's Basilica for the first time, on May 8, 2025. Photo by Alberto Pizzoli / AFP via Getty Images.

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