At precisely 3 PM yesterday, in the Pauline Chapel, an elevator operator of the Apostolic Palace placed his hand on the ...

On Monday, 5 May, at 5.30pm, in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Palace, officials and staff involved in the upcoming Conclave took the oath of secrecy, as stipulated by the apostolic constitution ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

In centuries past, the cardinals slept in corridors and rooms of the Apostolic Palace itself during the conclave ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the ...

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the ...

The drama and intrigue of a modern papal election can be movie-worthy, but the level of skulduggery these days is modest compared with past centuries.

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

Shrouded in secrecy — that’s perhaps the most fitting description of the conclave that elects the next leader of the global ...

PM in the Pauline Chapel, all those involved in the upcoming conclave, both ecclesiastical and laypersons, will take an oath ...