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PBS News | Robert Prevost of Chicago, elected as first American Pope, to be known as Leo XIV

White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church on the second day of their conclave.

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