Cardinals have handed in their mobile phones and taken oaths of secrecy as they begin the secret Conclave to decide the next ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become the next pope.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

With a Vatican official calling out “extra omnes”, the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor has officially begun.

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...