The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

Infighting, smear campaigns, papal letters from beyond the grave: The conclave to elect a new pope is giving the film a run ...

Right now, everything is secret,’ Madagascar Cardinal Désiré Tsarahazana said. ‘It’s the moment for prayers right now.’ ...

Workers in the Vatican have set up a simple stove in the Sistine Chapel, where the ballots from the upcoming conclave will be ...

As cardinals prepare for the largest papal conclave in history, battle lines are being drawn over the direction of the church ...

Rome is bustling with jasmine blooming and tourists swarming. But behind closed doors, these are the days of dinner parties, coffee klatches and private meetings as cardinals in town to elect a ...

The apparently AI-generated picture showed Trump holding up his index finger as if about to preach ex cathedra — and clad in ...

A photomontage featuring Donald Trump dressed as the pope was posted on the White House's social media accounts a few days ...

A coalition of survivors of clergy sexual abuse demanded that cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis pick a pope who will adopt a universal zero-tolerance policy for ...

Rumors about pope frontrunner Pietro Parolin have been published this week on various news sites, and sexual abuse watchdogs ...

Just days before the papal conclave is set to take place, the official White House account on X posted the AI-generated image ...