Workers and clerics assisting the dozens of Catholic cardinals set to gather Wednesday to begin voting on the next pope had ...

The eyes of 1.4 billion Catholics are fixed on the Vatican City as 132 cardinals started on Monday arriving in Rome to ...

The conclave, which will kick off on Wednesday, will be held behind the closed doors of the Sistine Chapel. It generally ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

Cardinals electing a new pope have some fundamental questions to weigh, beyond whether to give the Catholic Church its first ...

The Catholic Church will begin the secretive process to elect a new pope on Wednesday. The cardinals eligible to vote will ...

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

Hype has been building on social media around the Catholic Church's secretive, centuries-old tradition of conclaves to elect ...

There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

NCR analyzed the biographies, background, articles, speeches, homilies and media interviews of members of the College of ...

The announcement "Habemus Papam" — "We have a pope" — from the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica is followed first by the ...