The world's Catholic cardinals met on Monday for the first time after the funeral of Pope Francis to discuss a possible date ...

Some 120 Cardinals will join a Vatican conclave to elect Pope Francis' successor. The subject of an Oscar-winning film and ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

One of Pope Francis’ enduring legacies was that he greatly expanded the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, ...

Cardinals attend Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, before they enter the conclave to decide who the next pope will be, on March ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

The next pope will have the weight of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics on his shoulders. That’s how the Rev. Daniel Carr, 40 ...

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...