It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

As a fireworks expert tests the Vatican's contemporary system for "holy smoke," Catholic cardinals mull their divergent priorities for Pope Francis' successor.

A cardinal (from the Latin "cardinalis" or principal) is a high dignitary of the Catholic Church chosen by the pope to assist ...

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

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

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

The secretive conclave held in the Sistine Chapel requires a two-thirds of majority and involves up to four round of voting per day.

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...

Shortly after it was announced that Pope Francis had died, online gambling websites posted the betting favorites to replace ...

Tagle, who looks younger than his 67 years and likes to be called by his diminutive nickname "Chito", has headed the Vatican ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has chosen a date to elect its new leader, in a process virtually ...