Almost all of the 133 cardinals choosing the next pope are staying at the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse, which enjoyed a ...

White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel on Thursday and the bells of St. Peter's rang out, signalling that cardinals have ...

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

Enea Silvio Piccolomini left a detailed memoir of his election as Pius II in 1458. In it he describes a process of ...

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves Wednesday behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to ...

Becoming pope was a big deal for a cardinal and his family. Leading candidates known as papabili (pope-ables) began ...

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Perched on its limestone cliffs and sculpted by the waves of the Adriatic, Polignano a Mare is the perfect embodiment of the ...

The ailing pope was short of breath, sitting beneath a cherished painting of Mary, Untier of Knots, as he worked through a ...