Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Following the death or abdication of a pope, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican to choose a new leader at a papal conclave. However, a papal conclave does not ...

Update: White smoke poured from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon at the Vatican, indicating that the cardinal electors in the conclave had chosen a new pope.

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...

It begins, and ends, with what's known as the conclave. With all eyes now on the Vatican after Pope Francis' death, here's a look at the conclave and its role in electing the next head of the ...

Pope Leo's reviews among the American public are similar to Pope Francis' at the beginning of his papacy, researchers said.

Vatican Media, via Associated Press The first papal conclave in more than a decade began just over two weeks after the death of Pope Francis. Tiziana Fabi/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Sponsor Message The conclave was set in motion by the death of Pope Francis on April 21 at age 88. Francis himself was elected in 2013, when he became the first-ever pope from Latin America.

The conclave is an election conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Conclaves are held only when the papacy is vacated, typically upon a pope’s death or ...

VATICAN CITY — A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date of the conclave was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding ...

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