A New Pope Has Been Elected

The 133 cardinals who assembled in the Vatican for the top-secret conclave have chosen a new pontiff to replace the late Pope Francis, who died at age 88 last month.Plumes of white smoke streaming from a Sistine Chapel chimney Thursday signaled that a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church ― a faith with more than 1 billion followers ― had been selected by a two-thirds majority vote of the cardinals, the church’s most senior clergy under the pope. The new pope typically appears on the Vatican balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square within an hour of the smoke billowing.The 267th ..