The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

From the longest and shortest elections to the origin of the required vow of secrecy, here are some facts about the centuries ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has certainly already begun.

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...

Four of the 133 cardinal electors who will pick Pope Francis's successor in a conclave starting Wednesday have not yet ...

Welcome to America magazine’s Conclave Podcast. Our editors are on the ground in Rome covering the conclave to elect the next ...

Five days before cardinals gather for the conclave, firefighters on Friday (May 2) installed the chimney atop the Sistine ...

The first African American cardinal in the U.S., who began his Catholic journey on Chicago's South Side, will be there for ...