The cardinals will gather at St. Peter’s Basilica May 7 to celebrate a special Mass before gathering in the Sistine Chapel to ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

Some 133 cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel and are locked inside, tasked with choosing the next leader of the Catholic ...

Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

President Donald Trump shared a doctored image of himself as pope, a role he cannot hold, drawing condemnation.

Cardinals are set to gather in Vatican City next week to choose Pope Francis' successor as the leader of the Catholic Church.

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

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

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

ROME — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect a ...

President Donald Trump’s latest social media stunt – an AI-generated image of himself dressed as the pope – sparked immediate ...

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