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

Ahead of the May 7 papal conclave, workers installed a chimney at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. The conclaves famously ...

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 ...

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 May 2.

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has certainly already begun.

Cardinals are set to begin the conclave that will elect the next pope Wednesday, May 7, in the Vatican's Sistine ...

All eyes are on the Sistine Chapel after workers hoisted a new chimney onto the roof. The rust-colored pipe will send the ...

Conclave,” the film may have introduced movie-goers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the ...

If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week's conclave, then things are not going to ...