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

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 has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next Pope after the ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following the ...

Cardinals are expected to pick a date for the conclave to elect a new leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, following ...

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.

With Pope Francis laid to rest, all eyes turn now to the conclave, the secretive meeting of cardinals set to convene within ...

Now that Pope Francis has been buried, the Conclave of Cardinals will hold their vote for a new Pope, when one is drafted, ...