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6 days ago | 
ncronline.org | James V. Grimaldi |Heidi Schlumpf |Christopher White |Camillo Barone
By James V. Grimaldi, Heidi Schlumpf, Christopher WhiteMay 08, 2025The challenges for the Catholic Church in Chicago, where Robert Prevost grew up, are a microcosm of the gargantuan challenges facing the worldwide Catholic Church that the new Pope Leo XIV must address. May 08, 2025As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Michael Sean Winters
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $167,738 from 896 supporters. We are 56% of the way to our goal! Isabel Segovia Severin traveled from Viña Del Mar, Chile, in hopes of seeing white smoke and the new pope. "We leave tomorrow so we hope that today is the day," she said on May 8, the second day of the conclave. (NCR photo/Olivia Bardo) On Wednesday, the black smoke was late. On Thursday, the black smoke was early.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |James V. Grimaldi |Christopher White |Michael Sean Winters
As the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled, signaling the election of a new pope, American Catholics gathered in Rome expressed both surprise and hope for the future of the church. Among them was Lucy Wade, a 20-year-old from Kansas City, Missouri, who was in awe of the historic moment. "I did not expect this," Wade said, her eyes fixed on the crowds flooding St. Peter's Square.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |Camillo Barone |James V. Grimaldi |Rhina Guidos
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! A giant screen shows Swiss Guards standing as the door of the Sistine Chapel is being closed, during the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican May 7. Crowds gathered in St. Peter's Square as 133 cardinals eligible to vote entered the chapel.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Christopher White |Soli Salgado
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not choose a successor to St. Francis.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |James V. Grimaldi |Camillo Barone
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! The crowd at St. Peter's Square takes photos of the black smoke from the Sistine Chapel on May 7. (NCR photo/James V. Grimaldi) At age 73, Gary Toney joined the Catholic Church on Easter in Washington DC. For Eastertide, Toney and his wife, Laureen Toney, had planned to travel to Rome this week for the Jubilee.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Camillo Barone |Christopher White |Soli Salgado
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $164,401 from 839 supporters. We are 54.8% of the way to our goal! Black smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the cardinals' conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican on May 7, 2025. After their first vote, 133 cardinal-electors did not choose a successor to St. Francis.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Rhina Guidos |Soli Salgado |Camillo Barone |Christopher White
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $165,263 from 858 supporters. We are 55% of the way to our goal! Miriam Duignan Wijngaards prays at an event supporting women's ordination at Rome’s Oratory of San Francesco Saverio del Caravita May 6, the evening before the conclave to elect a new pope begins.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |Michael Sean Winters |Christopher White
Double your giving!NCR Board Director Jackie Doud will match the next $5,000 in gifts received! Workers on scaffolding May 2, 2025, attach the stove pipe to the stove that will be used to burn ballots during the conclave to elect a new pope in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Cardinals under the age of 80 will enter the conclave May 7. (CNS/Vatican Media) The crucial week for the future of the Catholic Church begins today.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Carol Zimmermann |Camillo Barone |Christopher White
Help us raise $300,000 for NCR!We have raised $66,694 from 421 supporters. We are 22.2% of the way to our goal! Pilgrims cheer and wave a banner saying "Viva il papa" ("Long live the pope") as white smoke rises from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel, indicating a new pope has been elected at the Vatican, March 13, 2013. The conclave to elect a new pope met over two days before making a decision.
