As people watched the papal election process unfold, advocates for issues including female clergy expressed hopes and fears ...

The Mass precedes the secretive and ritual-filled process to find a new leader of the Catholic Church following the novel ...

Ccardinals from around the world have sequestered in order to pick a new pope following the death of Pope Francis.

The 133 cardinal electors due to choose a successor to the late Pope Francis gathered inside the Vatican's Sistine Chapel on ...

Cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican Wednesday to elect a new pope following the death of Pope Francis.

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

The death of Pope Francis has ignited widespread online curiosity about the process of electing the next leader of the ...

A total of 133 cardinal electors will take an oath of perpetual secrecy under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's Last Judgement fresco, which adorns the chapel.

Sistine Chapel for the papal conclave. The electors will vote on a new pope until there is a two-thirds majority. NBC News International Correspondent Molly Hunter reports more from the Vatican.

Wearing bright red vestments, the cardinals processed down the central aisle of the basilica as the Sistine Chapel’s boys’ ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves away ...

The Papacy has also figured in numerous fictional films, including crime dramas (The Godfather Part III, 1990), thrillers (Angels & Demons, 2009), horrors (The Pope’s Exorcist, 2023) and numerous ...