As the conclave gets underway, eyes are searching for the billowing white smoke that signals Habemus Papam: “We have a pope.” ...

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

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

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

The world is waiting to see who will replace Pope Francis, and Newsweek reveals when you can expect to see smoke signals.

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

The papal conclave begins May 7. Here's how cardinals choose the next pope, what to expect and how secretive the process is.

The Catholic Church will soon begin the highly choreographed process of choosing its new leader following the death of Pope ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

The Sistine Chapel is ready for the papal conclave. Front-runners such as Parolin and Tagle are losing momentum amid a ...

Cardinals entered St. Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday for a final Mass before the conclave to elect the successor to Pope ...

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