Cardinals yesterday moved into the Vatican accommodation where they will stay during the conclave, on the eve of their ...

Who is Pietro Parolin? The longtime Vatican diplomat who could be the next pope - Pietro Parolin has been the Vatican's ...

With the papal conclave due to begin on Wednesday to decide on who will be the next pope, Mark Austin asked the author about ...

How the conclave will be kept secret - The Vatican has made sure that what happens in the Sistine Chapel stays in the Sistine ...

Pope Francis died on April 21, triggering a call for the 133 cardinal electors to gather in the Sistine Chapel to select the new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics. With representatives from ...

Cardinals for the Roman Catholic Church are in Rome ahead of the papal conclave. Here's when it starts and how to keep up with the latest.

The conclave that begins May 7 is expected to be the largest in history, with a wide geographical mix of cardinal-electors.While 115 cardinals took part in the conclaves in 2005 and 2013, 133 prelates ...

Only cardinals under the age of 80, who are male and Catholic, are allowed to vote in the election of the new pontiff.

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope ...

The students at Pinecrest Academy, a Catholic school in Forsyth County, excitedly lined the hallways of the school Tuesday morning to be blessed by their new pope: 7-year-old David.

Weeks after Pope Francis death, Trump laughed off questions about AI-generated photo of him as pope. His dismissal comes on ...

An antipope is a person who makes a competing claim to the papacy, in opposition to the legitimately elected pope.