Most of the comments preceding the imminent 'extra omnes' and thus the start of the elections for the new pope have focused on the competition between progressives and conservatives. To ...

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

The 133 cardinals of the Catholic Church will enter the conclave on Wednesday as they begins talk to select a new Pope.

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

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

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

The College of Cardinals gathers this week to elect the next pope to lead the Catholic Church. But what preparations go into setting up the rare, secretive event?