Forty-eight-hundred-and-four miles separate Vatican City from Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral, but a group of faithful gathered ...

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...

No pope has been selected yet as black smoke rises from Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. A bishop in Las Vegas explains what's ...

Anticipation gripped the Catholic world on Thursday, May 8, Vatican time, as the cardinals tasked with choosing a new pope ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Black smoke has come out of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that a pope has not been selected on the first day of voting.

The first day of the Papal Conclave ended without a consensus on the next pope. Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel indicated Cardinals will have to return to work tomorrow ...

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis has gotten underway Wednesday. In total, ...

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope Francis.

Cardinal Blase Cupich led the delegation of North American Cardinals as they boarded buses bound for sequestered quarters at the Vatican Tuesday eveni ...

While the world’s eyes turn to the Sistine Chapel and the solemn silence of Vatican deliberations, anticipation is rippling ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...