As 133 cardinals were sequestered in the Sistine Chapel where they would vote for a new leader of the Catholic Church, the ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...

The ideological center of the wealthiest, most powerful country would appear to justify a cardinal. What factors are at play?

While younger cardinals are busy choosing the new pope, older cardinals are mostly waiting it out like the rest of us ...

The cardinals will participate in four rounds of voting every day until a candidate achieves a two-thirds majority. The ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The faithful of Sacred Heart Parish in Hidalgo, Texas, gather with bishops, priests and deacons for a special Mass in 2018 to ...

The name "Franciscus" is seen engraved on the tomb of Pope Francis inside the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome. The ...

"There are names that are thrown around, but we really will not know until he walks onto that balcony," Xaverian Dean of ...

The faithful of Sacred Heart Parish in Hidalgo, Texas, gather with bishops, priests and deacons for a special Mass in 2018 to ...

They then fold the ballot, hold it up for visibility and carry it to the altar, where a chalice covered by a plate awaits.