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

More cardinals from more countries than ever will gather in the Sistine Chapel starting Wednesday to choose a new pope at a ...

CITÉ DU VATICAN, Holy See (AFP) — Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, ...

The preparations are all leading up to the solemn pageantry of the start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis ...

On May 7, the world will look on as the conclave to elect a new pope begins. This highly complex and secretive process will ...

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

In the pre-conclave process, cardinals – played by the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, and John Lithgow in the film – ...