A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

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

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

Voting in the morning was inconclusive. The conclave will reconvene in the afternoon, with two more votes expected on ...

Nutritionist Giorgio Calabrese, an Italian doctor who specializes in nutritional science, prepared the menu for the cardinal ...

White smoke has risen above the Sistine Chapel, the signal that cardinals have chosen a new pope on the second day of the ...

The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church had their first vote on Wednesday.

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...

Some of the Catholic cardinals watched the Oscar-winning papal election drama “Conclave” to prepare for this week’s real-life Vatican election. The church’s 133 cardinals making the pick ...