Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis' funeral were swarmed at the city-state's gates by ...

Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions. View on ...

Exit tourists. Enter cardinals. The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

Pope Francis's modest tomb drew massive queues on the first day of public viewing in Rome on Sunday, a day after an estimated ...

NPR secured one of the last public tours of the Sistine Chapel before it closes for the Catholic Church's upcoming conclave to select the next pope.

World dignitaries and Catholic faithful attended Pope Francis’ funeral in St. Peter’s Square on Saturday. Despite the ...

Francis choreographed the funeral himself when he revised and simplified the Vatican’s rites and rituals last year.

Massive queues formed in Rome on Sunday as mourners flocked to view Pope Francis’s modest tomb, a day after around 400,000 ...

Discussions around the next Pope are heating up. One hundred and 35 cardinals will soon be locked in the Sistine Chapel to vote on his successor in secret ...