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

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

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

Catholic cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican on Wednesday for the start of the conclave, the ...

The 133 cardinals tasked with electing the next leader of the Catholic Church had their first vote on Wednesday.

As Catholics around the world wait for a new pope to be voted in, they also are also waiting to see what name the new pontiff ...

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the ...

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

A conclave of as many as 250 Catholic cardinals at the Vatican produced black smoke, indicating no result, following the ...