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

The papacy has traditionally been held by cardinals, but exceptions exist. Historical trivia surrounding papal conclaves ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

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

The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 ...

There are no official candidates for the papacy, but some cardinals are considered “papabile,” or possessing the ...

With a conclave to elect a new pope scheduled to begin next week, several names have popped up as potential replacements for ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...

A snapshot of the papacies of the 11 modern popes that preceded Pope Francis, from Pope Benedict XVI to Blessed Pope Pius IX.