The proportion of cardinal electors from Africa and the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and countries in ...

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

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Voting to elect Pope Francis’ successor will begin on May 7 in Rome. Local ...

The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...

Pope Francis was not afraid of messiness. That seems to have been part and parcel of his pastoral freedom, charging into ...

The Conclave to replace Pope Francis will begin May 7.

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

The cardinals will gather for the conclave starting May 7. Special TV broadcasts are planned for the start of the papal ...

The conclave process to elect the next pope is shrouded in secrecy. Here’s a visual guide to the ancient tradition.

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...