One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a ...

The Vatican is streaming live views of St. Peter's Square on its YouTube channel, NBC offers a "smoke cam," and CNN created a 3D visualization.

Weeks after Pope Francis death, Trump laughed off questions about AI-generated photo of him as pope. His dismissal comes on ...

F or centuries, the ritual of the papal conclave — the group of 135 red-robed cardinals who cast their votes for a new pope ...

The movie “Conclave” delves into the intricacies of papal politics and the election of a new pope, but how accurate is it in ...

A cell phone tableau of inclusion and splendor from last year’s synod contrasts the Francis pontificate with this week’s ...

The Oscar-winning film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes look at what happens behind the Vatican's closed doors. Nelson Aguilar is ...

(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File) FILE - Black smoke emerges from the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as cardinals voted on the second day of the conclave to elect a pope in St. Peter's Square at the ...

Francis’s funeral marks the first day of the ‘Novemdiales’, or nine days of mourning, before the Cardinals can begin the papal conclave, a centuries old ritual to select the next pope.

Conclave the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic voting to elect a new pope has been going on for centuries and ...

Released last year Conclave, was a big hit ... the 2024 movie follows the process of selecting a new Pope for the Catholic Church – a process that is set to begin for real on 5th May 2025.

The booklet claims that the Catholic Church dropped the "Second Commandment" which forbids "graven images", i.e. statues. Allegedly the Catholic Church condones statue worship. Now one version of ...