After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

In preparations for next week’s conclave to elect a new pope, a chimney has been installed atop the Sistine Chapel to signal ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which ...

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

While the film gets some details right, it takes liberties with the process, including the cardinals’ interactions and ...

The French president held a series of meetings with cardinals and other Church officials while in the Italian capital last ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, a native of Chicago, has spent the bulk of his career outside the United States. Supporters ...

Conclave: Inside the secret election to choose the next Pope - The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has ...

Not only did Pope Francis value and promote the dignity of labor, he was someone who personally worked extremely hard, finding joy and rest in work itself, Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said at the ...

The world won’t know the next leader of the world’s Catholics until he appears before a throng of supporters in St. Peter’s ...