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

Pope Francis left a lasting legacy, not least his appreciation for art. In his 2025 biography, 'Hope,' Francis spoke of his ...

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, ...

Mobile phone signals across the Vatican will be deactivated from 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, as 133 Catholic cardinals enter the Sistine Chapel to begin the secretive conclave to elect a new pontiff ...

The motto that Francis selected for his papacy, ‘looking at him with mercy, he chose him,’ was inspired by Caravaggio’s ...

The conclave to select the successor to Pope Francis will begin Wednesday afternoon in Vatican City, where cardinals from around the world have gathered to take part in the mysterious process that has ...

On the eve of the conclave to elect the next pope, the world's smallest country, Vatican City, is engulfed in commotion as ...

The Sistine Chapel has witnessed every papal election since 1492 with only five exceptions, and it is preparing to once again ...

Cardinals from around the world will meet under Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel on May 7 to elect a new leader ...