About 7,700 people evacuated near Greek city of Patras, while Spain is on course for one of its longest heatwaves on record, with almost all of country deemed to be at extreme or very high risk of fire
Vatican says more than a million young people were present, along with 7,000 priests and 450 bishops
Fr Gabriel Romanelli used to receive daily calls from the late Pope Francis
There are bittersweet elements to emigration too, such as re-learning to be Irish, as Laura Kennedy learns
Pontiff arrives into St Peter’s Square on popemobile for service marking the official start of his papacy
Three Irish-born senior figures in the Roman Curia look set to remain in prominent roles under the new pontiff
Cardinals and Vatican insiders tell the story of how a swift consensus built around the relatively unknown Robert Prevost
Visitors praise ‘humble, simple and very welcoming man’
Leo tells first formal audience he will follow in the modernising reforms of Pope Francis
Pontiff’s successor as head of Augustinians recalls a man who is ‘humble, listens, lets everybody do their jobs’
In a world dominated by loud, divisive politics, the Cardinals found an antidote in Pope Leo XIV
Pope laments the valuing of money, success and power over Christian faith
The key to understanding the former Bob Prevost, say those who met him in Ireland, is not as an American pope or a liberal or conservative one, but as a South American one
On Chicago’s southeast side election of first US pope seen as ‘a great message of hope’
Pope Leo XIV accurately reflects the Catholic Church’s position in the developing world, where it is growing fastest
John Prevost said that his brother was ‘simple, really. He’s not going to go out for a 19-course meal’
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Cardinals choose new pontiff after fourth vote at the Vatican
Cardinal Robert Prevost from Chicago unlikely choice as 267th pope, but seen as champion of migrants and poor
Many were surprised at choice of Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, but hoped he would carry on legacy of Pope Francis
Chicago-born moderate served in Peru for two decades before taking influential Vatican posts
Conclave eligible to elect the successor to the late Pope Francis are expected to meet within weeks
As the cardinal electors in the Sistine Chapel took their oaths, a crowd of all ages gathered in St Peter’s Square
Cardinals to reconvene tomorrow for further ballots
Even at this late stage, it remains unclear who is most likely to become the Catholic Church’s next leader
As the conclave to choose the next pope begins, our readers share their views
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Ballots of 133 voting cardinals burned after each vote with black smoke signalling no agreement
The saying that ‘he who e’ters a conclave as pope exits as a cardinal” augurs badly for frontrunners
Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday
Cardinals with strong links to Ireland will be playing key role in the papal conclave from Wednesday
We will not make the necessary climate leap if divisions continue - between rite and reason, left and right, rural and urban or young and old
‘There is nothing funny or clever about this, Mr President. Do not mock us,’ say Catholic leaders
Cardinals have held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings over next pontiff
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