Beyond simply picking who the next pope will be, players and gamblers also can guess how many tries it will take the ...

Hailing from 70 countries across five continents, the group -- summoned following the death of Pope Francis on April 21 -- is ...

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday and following his funeral the focus turned to finding his successor, in what is a clearly drawn out process.

A new pope to replace Pope Francis will be elected on Wednesday, May 7, and for the first time in history, Rwanda will be represented in the process. Cardinal Antoine Kambanda, the Archbishop of ...

Inverted crosses visible as Pope Francis lay in state symbolise Saint Peter, the first pontiff, and are not a reference to ...

All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

A papal conclave is set to begin in Vatican City starting May 7, during which cardinals from around the world will elect the ...

All 133 Catholic cardinals who will vote for a new pope have arrived in Rome, the Vatican said on Monday, two days before they gather at a conclave to elect the next head of the world’s 1.4 billion ...

The next pontiff and the Catholic Church will need to complete their mission in a dramatic era of human history, Hungary's ...

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

Francis is not the only pope to rest there. Seven others are buried on the grounds, most notably St. Pius V, who established ...