White smoke emerges, indicating election of new pope May 8, 2025By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 133 cardinals decided May 8 after less than a day of voting on a new pope to lead the Catholic Church.
Amid prayers for the conclave, bishops call on faithful to embrace Jesus’ mission May 8, 2025By Julie Asher OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, World News As Catholics came together at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles to pray for the cardinal electors at the conclave, Archbishop José H. Gomez urged the faithful to also “ask for a new and deeper awareness of the important part that each one of us plays in the church.”
Some popes were elected unanimously, but ‘acclamation’ isn’t an option now May 8, 2025By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News The smoke meant that the 133 cardinals in the conclave had not given one candidate at least 89 votes, the two-thirds necessary for the election of a pope.
Faithful and furry: People and pets await next pope May 8, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2024 Election, News, Vatican, World News It is not just people who flock to St. Peter’s Square to watch the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel; some furry, faithful companions have also been waiting it out.
Advocates of abuse victims are rooting for a Filipino pope — and it’s not Cardinal Tagle May 8, 2025By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Child & Youth Protection, News, Vatican, World News While Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle is topping the list of “papabili” in the world press, it’s another Filipino that would please advocates and victims of clerical sexual abuse. His name is Cardinal Pablo Virgilio Siongco David of Kalookan.
Missionary discipleship sees growth after Seek the City initiative May 8, 2025By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, a renewed call to missionary discipleship is taking root. It is most recently outlined in “A Light Brightly Visible 3.0,” a pastoral letter released Ash Wednesday by Archbishop William E. Lori, and was the foundation of the archdiocese’s Seek the City to Come pastoral planning initiative that merged 61 Baltimore-area parishes into 30 worship sites.
A morning of black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney May 8, 2025By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Vatican, World News The 133 cardinals who entered the conclave failed to reach a two-thirds supermajority of at least 89 votes to elect a new pope during their morning session May 8.
With great anticipation, Americans in Rome await white smoke May 8, 2025By Gretchen R. Crowe OSV News Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, News, Vatican, World News Anticipation and excitement were in the air in St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding environs as thousands of faithful and curiosity seekers alike gazed for hours at a small chimney atop the Sistine Chapel.
Civil rights probe launched over state abuse reporting law’s lack of Catholic confession protections May 8, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Justice Department said May 5 it opened a civil rights investigation into the development and passage of legislation in Washington state that requires clergy to report child abuse or neglect but provides no exceptions for clergy-penitent privilege.
HHS releases report critical of gender transition procedures for youth May 8, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Health Care, News, World News The Department of Health and Human Services recently released what it called a “comprehensive review” of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender, calling for broader use of psychotherapy for young people with gender dysphoria rather than what proponents call gender-affirming care.
Supreme Court to allow enforcement of policy banning transgender troops May 8, 2025By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: News, Supreme Court, World News The U.S. Supreme Court said May 6 the Trump administration may enforce, for now, a ban on transgender troops serving in the military that had been blocked by lower courts.
Conclave: First ballot fails to elect pope May 7, 2025By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: 2025 Conclave, Feature, News, Uncategorized, Vatican, World News As expected, the 133 cardinals who entered the Sistine Chapel May 7 failed to elect the next pope on their first ballot.
