After the cardinals take their oaths, a senior cardinal delivers a meditation. The master of papal liturgical ceremonies, ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The world continues to watch and wait as 133 cardinals remain sequestered inside the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel as the secret ...

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

While the Conclave is underway to select a new Pope in Rome, Catholics in Iowa are following the media coverage, and praying. The West Bend St. Peter & Paul Church ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke is pouring out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.

Though the church has gone global, many Italians haven’t stopped believing the pope belongs in – and to – Rome.

As the world awaits the announcement of a new pope, Catholic residents in Kansas City expressed their hopes for the future ...

The secretive and centuries-old ritual to elect a new pope began Wednesday morning. This conclave is the most geographically ...

It’s a big decision that has the whole world watching and waiting. Who will be the next Pope? That’s the question the ...

As the world watches the Vatican, Catholic leaders in central Kentucky are sharing thoughts on the selection process of the new leader of the church.

VATICAN CITY -- The conclave to elect the 267th pope and successor to Pope Francis has gotten underway Wednesday. In total, ...