Latest news and live updates as the election process for the next pope continues. The cardinals met for their first conclave ...

As cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel to vote for a successor to Pope Francis, there is no single frontrunner, and it ...

Cardinals failed again Thursday morning to find a successor to Pope Francis, sending black smoke billowing up through the ...

The cardinals are shut off from the world for the secretive voting that will result in new leadership for the world's 1.4 ...

With no candidate securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the world will need to wait longer for a new ...

After the death of a Pope, a papal conclave—an incredibly secretive and important process— takes place in the Vatican as ...

Francis’ successor will be selected by cardinals at the conclave that began on May 7. Cardinals, known as the “princes of the ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...