Cardinals have talked about Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, as someone who could have a steady, ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

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

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 Oscar-winning film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes ...

Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...

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

A papal conclave, the election of a new pope, tends to begin 15-20 days after a papal vacancy. Black or white smoke indicates ...

Vatican firefighters fitted the Sistine Chapel chimney in place ahead of the election of Pope Francis’ successor. White smoke ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...

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