Sistine Chapel, where they will vote in secret and silence, a process designed to be both contemplative and free from outside ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Roman Catholic cardinals begin their conclave to elect the Church's 267th pope on Wednesday.

The College of Cardinals will meet beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to vote in a papal conclave -- a secret ballot where two ...

Throughout the 20th century, only two conclaves lasted up to five days − Pope Pius X's election in 1903 and Pope Pius XI's ...

Follow live coverage as Catholic cardinals elect the next Pope in the highly secretive conclave to lead the Vatican following ...

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

VATICAN CITY, — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican's medieval walls for ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

As the Papal Conclave begins in Vatican City, the El Paso Catholic community has expectations for the new pope after they say ...

And so it begins. The world's most secretive ceremony to select a new Pope is underway. Never will a chimney have so many eyes fixed upon it.

Once the conclave begins, cardinals are not allowed to leave, other than for meals and to sleep at night, until a successor is named.