The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

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

Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...

The College of Cardinals will begin the secretive voting process of choosing a new pope on Wednesday, May 7, and FOX 5 NY will have a 24/7 LIVE look at the Sistine Chapel.

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

A chimney was installed Friday, May 2, on the roof of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican ahead of the conclave to pick the ...

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 ...

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

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