Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic cardinals meeting in a secret conclave failed to elect a new pope on their ...

Catholics wait for the sign of white smoke, as cardinals gather behind the Vatican’s closed doors to choose the next pope.

With the papal conclave underway, Maureen H. O’Connell writes that the cardinals who elect his successor should keep in mind ...

Black smoke rises from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel, meaning that cardinals did not elect a new pope on the first day of ...

The Catholic Church has begun the highly choreographed process of choosing its new leader following the death of Pope Francis ...

Well, it seems as though Edward Berger’s Oscar-winning “ Conclave ” could have been a documentary. Life is imitating art as ...

Chaput may assert the pope was "inadequate to the real issues," but the truth is that Francis was challenging to those more ...

The cardinals will begin trying to find the new pope on Wednesday afternoon, when the Conclave opens, more than two weeks ...

The Crosby-born Archbishop of Westminster has called on people to pray for himself and other cardinals as they embark on the ...

Today, cardinals will form their conclave in the Sistine Chapel, beginning a mysterious process held in the strictest secrecy ...

CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan meets a traditionalist Catholic who preaches patriarchy and has found a new home in the so-called ...

Fashion may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about papal legacies, but Pope Francis, who died Monday, ...