White smoke will soon rise again from the Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling a new era of leadership in the Catholic Church — ...

Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the ...

The Vatican has closed the Sistine Chapel, where cardinals will gather for the conclave to elect the next pope after the ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

Heavy is the white mitre worn by the pope. Whoever emerges from the coming conclave as the new leader of the ...

The next pope will have the weight of the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics on his shoulders. That’s how the Rev. Daniel Carr, 40 ...

Cardinals arriving for the first day of meetings after Pope Francis’ funeral were swarmed at the city-state’s gates by journalists eager for hints of whether any consensus is building around the elect ...

The world's Catholic cardinals met on Monday for the first time after the funeral of Pope Francis to discuss a possible date ...

After attending Pope Francis’s funeral Saturday and as they begin pre-conclave meetings to discuss the state of the world and ...

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.