As cardinals prepare to enter the Sistine Chapel in a few days to elect a new pope, they are engaged in intense discussions ...

For more than 750 years, strict rules have guarded what cardinals can and cannot eat to prevent hidden messages stuffed ...

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

With 135 cardinals eligible to vote, the coming conclave is set to be the largest in the history of the Catholic Church and ...

I expect it won’t go as quickly as the last conclave. But maybe I’ll be proven wrong. I would be happy about that,” said ...

The Vatican is closing the Sistine Chapel to the public as part of preparations for the conclave to elect the next pope after ...

Travellers to Rome should expect closures, visitor restrictions and crowds at some of the city’s main attractions.

The status of an Italian cardinal is being debated as preparations get under way for the May 7 conclave to elect a successor ...

Much of what you hear about who the next pope will be, spoken with enormous confidence by people in the know, is often ...

The Italian cardinal at the heart of the Vatican’s “trial of the century” announced he was withdrawing from participating in ...

If you’re a fan of political thrillers, you may have already seen 2024’s “Conclave.” The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes, ...

The papal conclave will commence in May, when the cardinals will meet at St. Peter's Basilica and pray for the wisdom to select the next pope.