On May 7, an expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope Francis, who shied away from giving red hats to the traditional ...

Pope Francis, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, made history in 2013 by becoming the first pope from Latin America and the first non-European pope in over a millennium.  He served ...

Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

Workers enter the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City on May 2 to install a stove and chimney to be used for the election of a new ...

The meeting of the College of Cardinals, where the next head of the Catholic Church will be selected, is scheduled to take place on May 7 ...

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

Speculation always runs high when a new pope is to be chosen. With Catholic cardinals set to begin the conclave on May 7 to ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and created a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

The movie "Conclave" paints a mostly accurate picture of the Roman Catholic process of electing a new pope, save for an ...