Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The newly anointed Pope Leo XIV came to the balcony clad in a white cassock topped by a red cape trimmed in ermine and draped ...

Father Brian, a priest visiting Rome from the United States, references the movie "Conclave" while talking about the previous ...

Being here in Rome, being part of something that’s thousands of years old, and seeing a list of every pope since St. Peter — you see this continuous chain, and you just know you’re part of ...

At private dinners and at formal gatherings of cardinals, talk among church leaders of who will next lead the church has ...

Speakers blasted songs including “Born in the U.S.A.” and “American Pie” as six cardinal electors from the United States ...

Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...

The question facing the conclave is whether the cardinals want to continue in the direction set by Pope Francis.