The Vatican is streaming live views of St. Peter's Square on its YouTube channel, NBC offers a "smoke cam," and CNN created a ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Hundreds of people watched on giant video screens and waited for the first puffs of smoke to learn whether a pope had been ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

The potential influence of the spiritual leader of 1.4 billion Catholics attracts the attention of the secular world as well.

The papal conclave is convening on Wednesday to begin the process of electing Pope Francis' successor. And for Americans who ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.