The cardinals, from 70 countries, will be sequestered from the outside world, their cellphones surrendered and airwaves ...

Cardinals from all over the world will gather in conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis. There were 135 ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

The announcement “Habemus Papam” — “We have a pope” — from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica is followed first by the ...

At age 10, she was spirited out of Nazi Europe to the United States as part of a rescue effort for young refugees.

The papal conclave will begin with a single ballot on the first day and then four rounds of voting each day afterward until a ...

Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose ...

All eyes will be on a small chimney on the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel today as the Catholic Church’s most senior leaders meet ...

The United States is the home country for 10 of the 133 cardinals eligible to vote for the next pope. That’s more than any ...

The Papal Conclave becomes a magnet for tourists to visit the Vatican, even though the process of electing a new Pope to ...

The Sistine Chapel was decked out to host a papal election Tuesday as cardinals from around the globe moved into a Vatican ...