Cardinals hold vote for new pope as watch begins for smoke from Vatican chimney - Some 133 Cardinals began their secretive ...

The cardinals have gathered in Vatican City to choose the 267th pope. St Peter, regarded as the first pope, was elected ...

Sixteen days after Francis's death, cardinals from around the world have shut themselves away for as long as it takes to vote ...

A conclave will go on for as long as needed. The longest was almost three years from 1268 to 1271. Some have been a day. The ...

Once inside, they will pledge to maintain secrecy about what's about to transpire and to not allow any interference from ...

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors are set to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as the 2025 papal conclave begins.

Mass was held in St. Peter’s Basilica hours before 133 cardinals begin the conclave to select the man who will replace Pope ...

Cardinals are locking themselves away to kick off the centuries-old conclave and begin choosing Pope Francis' successor.

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as the betting favorite to succeed Pope Francis, ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday (May 7), before locking ...

Since the birth of the modern environment movement in the 1970s, every pope has turned attention toward matters of ecology — ...

The ideological center of the wealthiest, most powerful country would appear to justify a cardinal. What factors are at play?