"But I thought just maybe, for Pope Francis, it mattered that we had more cardinals who are really grounded there." Cardinal ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, but now, one name has been coming up as a ...

So that means some foods were banned or carefully inspected at previous conclaves, including whole roast chicken, stuffed ...

The first conclave in more than a decade comes during an uncertain time for the church, which is facing difficult decisions ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, ...

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the secretive, ...

Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday (May 7) from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to ...

The chances the cardinals would agree on a new leader in their first vote were vanishingly remote, so today’s result reveals ...