Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

The drama and intrigue of a modern papal election can be movie-worthy, but the level of skulduggery these days is modest compared with past centuries.

Most of the comments preceding the imminent 'extra omnes' and thus the start of the elections for the new pope have focused on the competition between progressives and conservatives. To ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

The 133 cardinals of the Catholic Church will enter the conclave on Wednesday as they begins talk to select a new Pope.

Cardinals will on Tuesday (May 5) begin moving into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on ...

The conclave ends when a new pope is elected by receiving two-thirds of the votes. Here's how much time that could take.

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

Rumors about pope frontrunner Pietro Parolin have been published this week on various news sites, and sexual abuse watchdogs ...