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

The cardinals have gathered in Vatican City to choose the 267th pope. St Peter, regarded as the first pope, was elected ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Doesn’t it feel like everyone on social media is a self-described papal expert these days? In today’s issue: Papal conclave ...

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 sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

As the conclave to elect the next pope begins, Pietro Parolin has emerged as the betting favorite to succeed Pope Francis, ...

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

The College of Cardinals have convened for the papal conclave. Several of these cardinals are watching the movie for advice ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...