Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

ROME (AP) — Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of ...

Cardinal Robert Prevost joins the conclave Wednesday to pick Pope Francis' successor. His rise in the faith began at a South ...

Though Francis didn’t make major changes to the conclave, his outreach to what he called “peripheries’’ leaves an imprint that will be felt this week.

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

First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

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

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

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

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

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

The College of Cardinals gathers this week to elect the next pope to lead the Catholic Church. But what preparations go into setting up the rare, secretive event?