On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

There are 133 cardinals taking part in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history to pick the ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, each cardinal elector stood before his assigned seat, facing the Book of the Gospels, placed on a ...

Cardinals begin secret election to choose next Pope in Sistine Chapel - In the pre-conclave Mass, senior cardinal Giovanni ...

The 133 cardinals from 70 countries will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a ...

The conclave to elect a new pope has officially begun, with a Vatican official calling out ''extra omnes'' and the door to ...

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

A new pope could be named within a matter of hours, after 133 Catholic cardinals gathered inside the Vatican to elect the ...

With the papal conclave underway, Maureen H. O’Connell writes that the cardinals who elect his successor should keep in mind ...

All eyes are on the as the conclave begins on Wednesday as more than 130 Catholic cardinals come together behind the locked ...

For the first time since 2013, a papal conclave will meet in Vatican City behind closed doors to select the next pope to replace Francis, who died last month.

As the world waits for the conclave at the Vatican to elect a new pontiff, another question remains at the back of everyone’s minds: What will his new name be?