The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of its preparations for the the conclave to elect the next ...

Roman Catholic faithful began visiting the tomb of Pope Francis on Sunday, filing past the simple white tomb in St. Mary ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

As a result of Francis’ expansion of the diversity of cardinals who will elect his successor, all that is certain about the ...

Hundreds of thousands gathered in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, a day after Pope Francis' funeral, for another ceremony to ...

The church is divided. The problem is to find the one who unites, not pretend that it isn’t divided,” one church historian ...

A German cardinal has warned that the Catholic Church faces a split if it fails to replace the late Pope Francis with an ...

Pope Francis died at age 88 on April 21, setting off a series of centuries-old rituals to select a new leader of the Catholic ...

The process of picking a new pope is filled with ancient rituals like a secret ballot and locked doors. See a visual guide to conclave.

Cardinals attend Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, before they enter the conclave to decide who the next pope will be, on March ...

The cardinals eligible to vote for the new pope will gather in the coming weeks and enter seclusion to secretly vote for the new bishop of Rome.