It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that ended the longest papal election in the ...

On May 7, the world will look on as the conclave to elect a new pope begins. This highly complex and secretive process will ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

Here are ten surprising and interesting facts about Papal conclaves.The longest conclave lasted almost three yearsThere is no ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, leading candidates for Pope, face accusations of mishandling child ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.