The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, involving the installation of a stove ...

The cardinals of the Catholic Church held their ninth in a series of near-daily meetings at the Vatican on Saturday ahead of ...

Infighting, smear campaigns, papal letters from beyond the grave: The conclave to elect a new pope is giving the film a run ...