While cardinals this week said they expected a short conclave, it will likely take at least a few rounds of voting.

Among the regular pilgrims, tourists and assorted onlookers were groups of nuns. There are around 600,000 Catholic nuns ...

Step inside the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel in Vatican City, where Michelangelo’s legendary ceiling frescoes—including The Creation of Adam—unfold above in breathtaking detail, offering a rare and ...

VATICAN CITY — White smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling that a pope has been elected to lead the ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost, an American missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and leads the Vatican’s powerful ...

That means the winner secured at least 89 votes of the 133 cardinals participating in the conclave to elect a successor to ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope after the first ...

White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter’s Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Church.

Despite the disappointment, hopes were still high that a pope would be chosen quickly, perhaps as early as Thursday afternoon ...

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic ...