As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where ...

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

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on ...

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic ...

The ballots are burned after each vote and the smoke will emanate from the chimney that was built on top of the Sistine Chapel. Black smoke means a majority has not been reached and the voting will ...

A frenzy of betting is underway as gamblers try to predict results of the upcoming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. The cardinals may be stacked against them.

“We need to welcome and accompany,” said Sue DeFerrari, executive director of MorningStar Renewal Center, a Catholic ...

ShareToday, being 7th May 2025, about 135 cardinal electors, known as ‘Princes of the Church’, are expected to converge on ...

They don’t have a vote in the pope’s election, but nearly 900 superiors of the world’s female Catholic orders met in Rome on ...

TOPSHOT - Argentina's Jorge Bergoglio, elected Pope Francis I (C) waves from the window of St Peter's Basilica's balcony after being elected the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on March 13, ...

Nuns don't have a vote in the election of a pope. But nearly 900 superiors of the world's female Catholic orders gathered in ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — In the days leading up to the conclave, as cardinals have met in the general congregations to discuss ...