The conclave, shrouded in centuries-old tradition and secrecy, stands as one of the most captivating rituals in the Catholic ...

ROME — An introspective Pope Francis has divulged some of the behind-the-scenes dynamics of the secret 2013 conclave that ...

Pope Francis falls and hurts his arm, Vatican says, weeks after another fall resulted in a bad bruise on his chin.

Someone in the queue behind him said “let’s hope he accepts”, but he was, it seems, deaf to all the signs he was in the ...

Pope Francis handed box of papers over ‘most difficult and painful’ Vatican scandals by Benedict - Pope Francis’ reveals in ...

At the last conclave in 2013, Europeans and North Americans cast 64% of the votes. In an election held immediately after the consistory, they would have 52%. The pope now carries out most of his ...

The conclave to elect the new pope typically begins 15 to 20 days after the pope’s death, following the period of mourning. In the case of papal resignation, as with Benedict XVI in 2013 ...

The thriller is situated in a papal conclave, that is the gathering of cardinals of the ... Just such an unusual circumstance took place in 2013 with the renunciation of the papacy by Pope Benedict ...

By making Radcliffe a cardinal, the Jesuit Pope has ensured that the Dominican theologian’s voice will be heard during (or at least in the closed-door meeting before) the next conclave to elect ...