In April 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger became Pope Benedict XVI following the death of Pope John Paul II. The new leader of the Catholic Church was elected after four ballots of the papal conclave.

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

Middleburg's Kielce Gussie was raised Catholic, attended Catholic schools and worked for the Vatican in Rome and gave a reading at the pope's funeral.

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The youthful 67-year-old emerging as a favourite to be the next pope - Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle likes to be ...

Dietary restrictions, established in 1274, dictate simple meals to maintain focus, while cardinals may seek private dining ...

Aside from doubts about the true age of Philippe Ouedraogo, a cardinal from Burkina Faso whom some claim is 80, meaning he’s too old to vote, and concerns about the presence of the Peruvian cardinal ...

As cardinals prepare to meet in a conclave at the Vatican to elect a new pope, Catholic bishops in Cameroon and around Africa ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

Thanks largely to the United States' unique civil justice system and robust free press, bishops here have been forced to ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter’s Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope’s election will play out in the ...