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

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

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

Joel Hodge says it is possible a pope from a non-Catholic-majority country could be elected. (Supplied: Australian Catholic ...

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

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 ...

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...

Shortly after it was announced that Pope Francis had died, online gambling websites posted the betting favorites to replace ...

Tagle, who looks younger than his 67 years and likes to be called by his diminutive nickname "Chito", has headed the Vatican ...

It was revealed last week that A24 had won a fierce bidding war over the script adapting Winton’s Booker Prize-shortlisted ...