All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had arrived in Rome by ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

From the longest and shortest elections to the origin of the required vow of secrecy, here are some facts about the centuries ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

A Maryland parish priest told OSV News ahead of the upcoming conclave that he has "an enormous degree of confidence" in the ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—All but four of the 135 cardinals who are eligible to enter the conclave May 7 to vote for a new pope had ...

Gammarelli family's clerical tailor shop in Rome prepared vestments for Pope Francis, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II ...

Vatican firefighters were seen on the roof of Sistine Chapel installing the chimney, a key moment in the preparation for the ...

Despite the warm embrace from Romans and while Rome observes nine days of mourning for the popular late pope, a few of ...

Firefighters installed the chimney atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday which will emit white smoke to signal the election of a ...

Four of the 133 cardinal electors who will pick Pope Francis's successor in a conclave starting Wednesday have not yet ...