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

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 ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

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

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

Cardinal Tagle, papal contender, seen as ‘Asian Pope Francis’ Tagle would be first Filipino pontiff Widely seen as wanting to continue Francis’ reforms Friends praise humour, charm, approachability ...

Cardinals will gather on May 7 in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new Pope, days after Pope Francis ...

There is no rule that cardinals electing a new pope vote a certain way according to their nationality or region. But ...

If the Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are looking for a steady administrator ...