The election of Pope Leo XIV, the first American pope, created a plethora of great memes, many based on Robert Prevost's hometown of Chicago.

Prevost’s election, one person joked, meant, “No ketchup on hot dogs [was] now canonical law.”It meant, another quipped, that Chicago had “produced a Pope before a QB who throws 4000 yards.” ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to underscore that cardinals are sequestered until they ...

And once the election process for a new pope begins, gatherers will turn upward each day, waiting for black or white smoke to fill the sky. Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21.

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on Wednesday, bringing cardinals from all over the world to select the 267th pope.