Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 Catholic cardinals are beginning the ...

As the papal conclave is set to begin to elect a new pope, the eyes of the world are on the Sistine Chapel, which will hold ...

As cardinals gather at the Sistine Chapel to begin voting for a successor to Pope Francis, there is no single frontrunner, ...

The doors of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican were closed on Wednesday, signalling the start of a secret conclave where 133 ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals began the centuries-old ritual to ...

The conclave to choose the next pope began Wednesday, with cardinals from around the world gathered in the Vatican to partake ...

On Wednesday afternoon, red-hatted clerics who carry the same weight and dignity as princes within the Catholic Church ...

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

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first day of the conclave.