Pope Francis, who presided over the Roman Catholic Church and its estimated 1.4 billion followers for 12 years, died April 21 ...

A change in popes is a complicated process. Here are the need-to-know terms — some of them in Latin — to help make sense of ...

Ballots are burned in the process, but the smoke seen by the world is created using another stove, the Vatican Information ...

Here's everything you need to know about a conclave, the secret, centuries-old process used to select a new pope.

Courier Digital Content Producer Gina Capellazzi will sit down with Donald Smith, diocesan coordinator of sacramental ...

A conclave is a meeting of the College of Cardinals where an election is held to determine who the next pope is. The conclave ...

For smoke watchers, the best time to view the smoke on May 7, the conclave's first day, is just after 7 p.m. (10 a.m. PDT, 1 ...

A change in popes — through death or resignation — is a complicated process. These are the need-to-know terms — some of them ...

From floor tiles that block cellphone signals to a new chimney, here's how the Vatican keeps information inside the chapel ...

Ahead of the May 7 start of the papal conclave, the Pontifical Missions Societies USA is inviting faithful to pray – not only for the assembly as a whole, but for a specific cardinal elector who will ...

The prayer book is the "Ordo Rituum Conclavis" ("Rites of the Conclave"), which was approved by St. John Paul II in 1998, but ...