At almost 8pm on the nose on Wednesday, clouds of black smoke appeared over the Vatican. That meant that the first ballot in ...

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

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

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

White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...

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

Odds are on a short conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor, with 267th pope likely to be picked by Thursday or Friday ...

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

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

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

Filipino bishop Luis Antonio Tagle, aka 'Asian Francis', is one of the favorites bidding to win the conclave vote.

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