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White smoke from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday signaled that the cardinals have selected the next leader of the Catholic ...
Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis ...
Cardinals sequestered inside the Sistine Chapel gather to vote on the next pope who will lead the world’s 1.4 billion ...
The papal conclave begins May 7. Here's how cardinals choose the next pope, what to expect and how secretive the process is.
As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...
The Vatican also plans to use signal jamming during the conclave to prevent electronic surveillance or communication outside ...
The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...
Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...