There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries will begin electing a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter’s Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope’s election will play out in the ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an internal dynamic that is revealed in the voting, writes columnist Michael ...

As the Catholic Church mourns the death of Pope Francis and its all-male College of Cardinals prepares to elect his successor, an accidental email sent last month captured the contradictions at the ...