Whether that’s a positive development is yet to be seen. By some accounts, he was a dark horse in a conclave race which many ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on ...

The longest conclave lasted almost three years. Thankfully, the timeframe has changed drastically in recent years.

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...

The Catholic Church's cardinal electors entered the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican to choose a successor to Pope Francis, as ...

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

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Eighteen days after Pope Francis last appeared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, his successor -- the 267th pope -- ...

A new pope will be selected when a candidate gets a two-thirds-plus-one majority vote by the cardinal electors. White smoke ...

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis ...

More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...