Religion

Getting the new Catholic School District off on the right foot, that's the job of Kevin Powers.

The new Catholic school district in St. Cloud has it's first superintendent.

The Diocese of St. Cloud has decided to bring the separate Catholic schools in the area together under one roof.

The Catholic church has elected a new pope. Argentinian Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected as the 266th Pontiff and will lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. He has taken the name Pope Francis.

The new pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who is 76, has spent nearly his entire career at home in Argentina, overseeing churches and shoe-leather priests.

Cardinals meeting in Conclave in the Sistine Chapel have elected a new Pope.

The process by which the next pope will be elected, known as the conclave, began Tuesday morning at about 11:30. Here are some key points you should know about:

Tuesday evening, a plume of black smoke rose out of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican, signifying that the first round of balloting to elect a new pope had passed without any nominee receiving the necessary two-thirds majority.

Area churches will collectively host a service in support of those who have been impacted by the closing of Verso Paper.

A task force has determined the St. Cloud Area School District's religion policy is just fine. Superintendent Bruce Watkins says, while talking to residents during his retirement, he found there was a lot of misinformation about the district's policy on religion.