LIVE – Updated at 00:28. Cardinals in the secret conclave are set for another round of discussions on Thursday after failing to select the next pope on the first day of voting.

The Catholic cardinals meeting for the conclave are locked in the Sistine Chapel — one of the grandest buildings in the Western world. But their meals are decidedly less elegant. The food at the ...

The shortest conclave on record was in 1503, when it took the cardinals only 10 hours to choose Pope Pius III as the new pontiff. The longest conclave on record took nearly three years.

The cardinals are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City for the conclave to elect a new pope — but no winner emerged Wednesday night as black smoke billowed up from the Sistine Chapel ...

Cardinals attend a Mass prior to the start of the conclave to choose a new pope, at St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Wednesday. Vatican Pool/Getty Images hide caption ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Cardinals told RNS they now have a better sense of each other, despite having had little familiarity before the general congregations — the last of which was Tuesday (May 6).

Today, just over two weeks after Pope Francis’s passing, the 2025 papal conclave began. At 4 a.m. ET, 10 a.m. Vatican Time, the 133 voting cardinals gathered at St. Peter’s Basilica for a Holy ...

The Vatican also announced that two unnamed cardinals will not take part in the conclave due to health issues. The meeting also coincided with the Vatican’s announcement that Cardinal Angelo ...

College of Cardinals: Who they are, where they're from The conclave to select a new pope will be sharply different from the body that chose Francis in 2013. Experts say that could make it harder ...

Catholic cardinals across five continents are now in seclusion at the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, May 7 to vote for the successor to Pope Francis in a conclave that could take hours or days.. The ...

The cardinals selecting the next pope will take their meals at a Vatican guesthouse. One conclave veteran said the fare was “food you could eat at a train station.” By Jason Horowitz and Emma ...