The Catholic Church's cardinal electors are set to choose a successor to Pope Francis, with the 2025 papal conclave about to ...

In a tradition that scholars date to the 19th century, smoke released from a chimney will be colored white if the cardinals ...

BREAKING: 133 red-robed cardinals from around the world have filed into the Sistine Chapel, and the doors sealed behind them.

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 ...

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

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...

Francis’ successor will be selected by cardinals at the conclave that begins on May 7. Cardinals, known as the “princes of ...

Here's how it works, a list of contenders to become the next pope and how many conclaves there have been in the last 100 ...

Inside the Sistine Chapel, each cardinal elector stood before his assigned seat, facing the Book of the Gospels, placed on a ...

As the Catholic Church prepares to elect a new leader, the editors of 'America' remember an extraordinary and beloved pontiff ...