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Francis incorporated his love of the beautiful game into his outlook as Pope. Will his successor do the same with baseball?

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American Robert Prevost has become the 267th pope after more than two-thirds of the cardinals voted for him to succeed the ...

White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the Catholic Church.

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