Follow live coverage from the Vatican on the second day of conclave as cardinals return to the Sistine Chapel to vote for a ...

Roman Catholic cardinals have begun the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

Cardinals were set to have returned to the Sistine Chapel this morning, resuming voting for a successor to the late Pope ...

In 2013, child abuse protestor Ralph Napierski posed as a cardinal in an attempt to disrupt the conclave. Guards noticed his ...

The longest conclave since the 20th century began took 14 rounds of balloting across five days, ending with the election of ...

Cardinal Czerny was appointed by Pope Francis and is, like him, a Jesuit. Popular with progressives in the Church, he was ...

WITH the conclave set to gather to choose the next pope, all eyes turn to the Vatican. Cardinals from across the world have ...

With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

A new pope has been elected. Robert Francis Prevost, of the United States, and the first American pope, has been selected by ...

With the conclave to elect the new pope beginning in Vatican City on Wednesday, following the death of Francis I on 21 April, ...

For the first time in history an American has been elected as Pope.The idea of an American pope has often been dismissed, ...

White smoke has emerged from the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, signalling a new pope has been chosen to replace the late ...