As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions ...

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.

On Friday, the day before the pope’s funeral, flight searches on Expedia for Rome for the dates of May 5-14 were up more than ...

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 ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the ...

The papal conclave is the closely guarded gathering ... their own ranks — the man who will become the 267th Bishop of Rome, better known as the pope. On Day One, the cardinals celebrate a ...