Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

While the cardinals are known to wear their scarlet red attire, some individuals involved in conclave proceedings were seen ...

Catholic cardinals gather and sequester themselves in the Vatican for the start of a conclave to elect a new pope.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Roman Catholic cardinals begin their conclave to elect the Church's 267th pope on Wednesday.

For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

On Wednesday, 133 members of the College of Cardinals will enter the Sistine Chapel for the third papal conclave in recent ...

And they will determine whether the adage "fat pope, thin pope" holds true or whether the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

One conclave in the 13th century took nearly three years. Others took just one day. Pope Francis was elected on the second ...

Francis’ successor will be selected by cardinals at the conclave that began on May 7. Cardinals, known as the “princes of the ...

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

The first thing the new pope will do is choose a name. In the history of the papacy, the most commonly used name has been ...