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

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

The history of this ancient process is frequently the subject of attention as the world gets ready for the next papal ...

How long will the conclave last? Who is eligible to become pope? And why is everything so secretive? We answer your burning ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

Starting tomorrow at the Vatican, 133 cardinals will take part in a centuries-old secret ritual to choose Pope Francis’ ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

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

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

Choosing a replacement for Pope Francis is a secretive and time-tested process for the cardinal-electors in the Sistine ...

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