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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

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

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

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

The Catholic Church has begun the highly choreographed process of choosing its new leader following the death of Pope Francis ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commences on ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the ...