The door to the Sistine Chapel closed as the cardinals begin the process of choosing the new pope. The conclave starting ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

The Church's opening to women initiated by Francis will be one of the challenges the next Pope will face. Hours before the cardinals locked themselves in the conclave that will choose the successor of ...

None of the cardinals achieved the necessary two-thirds majority (89 votes) among the 133 electors, who are scheduled to reconvene on Thursday, with up to four votes planned. Black smoke: the first ...

Thick black smoke emerged Wednesday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a new head of the Catholic Church in their first conclave vote. Tens of ...

A group of 133 Cardinals are making their way from their rooms into the Sistine Chapel where they will have no contact with ...

I think that one of the principal challenges that the new pope will have is that we live in a world that’s increasingly ...

Follow live coverage as Catholic cardinals elect the next Pope in the highly secretive conclave to lead the Vatican following ...

The first day of the conclave ended without a decision on the next pope. Here's what's next for the cardinal electors.

Gathering under the soaring frescoes of Renaissance masters and a blanket of intense seclusion, 133 red-robed cardinals made a solemn procession into the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday to ...

Thick black smoke emerged on Wednesday from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in a sign that cardinals had failed to elect a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...