Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

Next week’s conclave to elect the successor to Pope Francis as leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics is a solemn affair ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

How long will the upcoming papal conclave take? Likely not that long, according to one Cardinal, who is personally hoping for ...

The Oscar-winning film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes ...

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

Fans of the Oscar-nominated movie “Conclave,” which is about a papal election, might think they have a head start on what’s ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

While the film gets some details right, it takes liberties with the process, including the cardinals’ interactions and ...

The cardinals will gather for the conclave starting May 7. Special TV broadcasts are planned for the start of the papal ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which ...