Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

European pope in centuries, Francis was especially aware of colonialism’s impact and the need to embrace many cultures within ...

With the conclave underway, PBS News has a live video of the chimney on the Sistine Chapel as the world waits for white smoke ...

Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, but now, one name has been coming up as a ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” ...

Black smoke has poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney, indicating no pope was elected on the first ballot of the conclave ...

Voting will continue among the cardinals gathered in Vatican City after no one gained the required two-thirds majority to become the next leader of the Catholic Church ...

Much of the world’s attention is on the Vatican, where conclave has begun and cardinals are meeting to select a successor to ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals are about to begin the secretive process known as a conclave ...

With Roman Catholic cardinals set to begin their secret conclave to elect a new pope, the legacy left behind by Pope Francis, ...