Cardinal Justin Francis Rigali, the former archbishop of Philadelphia, is outside the age cutoff for the conclave to select ...

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Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

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Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

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 ...

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

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

The Catholic Church's cardinals are meeting next week at the Vatican to elect the new pope in a centuries-old process called ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...