There are currently 135 cardinals who are under age 80 and eligible to vote in the conclave, hailing from 71 different ...

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

Cardinals continued to hold congregation meetings in the Vatican on Monday ahead of the conclave later this week to elect a ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent ...

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...