The Vatican Fire Brigade installed a chimney stack at the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will play a key role in the ...

The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

Now that Pope Francis has been laid to rest, there's a renewed fascination with the centuries-old traditions of the Vatican.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Voting to elect Pope Francis’ successor will begin on May 7 in Rome. Local ...

The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

The cardinals have asked Catholics to pray for them and the conclave. What exactly should we be praying for? And should we be ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

Here's everything you need to know about a conclave, the secret, centuries-old process used to select a new pope.