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Thu May 8 2025

A new pope has been named: White smoke pours from Vatican

Nuns gather in St. Peter's Square, on the second day of the conclave to elect the new pope at the Vatican, May 8, 2025.

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 billion Roman Catholics.

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