The world's Catholic cardinals met on Monday for the first time after the funeral of Pope Francis to discuss a possible date ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

Pope Francis chose his place of burial in St. Mary Major Basilica, near an icon of the Madonna that he revered, because it ...

Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope ...

Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates by journalists eager for hints of whether any consensus is building around the elect ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.