Anticipation gripped the Catholic world Thursday as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope prepared to retreat behind ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

Anticipation gripped the Catholic world Thursday as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope prepared to retreat behind ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes” and the door to the Sistine Chapel shutting, the conclave to elect Pope ...

The chances the cardinals would agree on a new leader in their first vote were vanishingly remote, so today’s result reveals ...

Black smoke streamed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, signaling that the more than 130 cardinal electors have not come ...

The conclave to elect a new pope has officially begun, with a Vatican official calling out ''extra omnes'' and the door to ...

Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

This secretive conclave to elect the next pope is being held in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. What's it like inside and how ...