The crowds had to be patient as it took longer than expected for the smoke to appear, more than three hours after the start ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

With its meteoric rise chronicled in the New York Times under the comical headline “Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist ...

Cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel to begin the second day of the secretive process to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church.

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

Cardinals to take secrecy oaths ahead of vote for new pope Voting occurs in the Sistine Chapel, cut off from world New pope ...

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

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where ...

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

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