With cardinals from Africa, Asia and even East Timor now among the electors, this conclave could mark a turning point for a ...

Age, geographical, ideological considerations and Donald Trump will all be factors that play into who becomes the next pope.

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

Pope Francis’ former point man on migrants has drawn criticism with comments in the context of the African continent being ...

The Sistine Chapel was decked out to host a papal election Tuesday as cardinals from around the globe moved into a Vatican ...

Catholics around the world are getting ready to celebrate the election of a new pope as the conclave begins on Wednesday. All eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel to see white ...

Cardinals will be voting for a new leader in the largest papal conclave in history, following the death of Pope Francis in ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

Not without some last-minute and apparently inconsequential drama, 133 cardinals will this afternoon file into the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican to elect the 267th Pope. Ten days after the death of ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa ...