The Vatican is prioritizing secrecy ahead of the conclave to pick a new pope — as it has for hundreds of years — but in the ...

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

Cardinals have decided the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin May 7. The conclave is a closed-door ...

A total of 135 cardinals from across the world and below the age of 80 are eligible to take part in the secret vote to decide who will be the next head of the 1.4-billion-member church.

The Vatican says the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on May 7. The date was chief on the agenda of ...

175 pages of once-secret meeting minutes from the San Francisco ... shining a light on how the church investigates its own. The disclosure was ordered last month by a judge in the Archdiocese ...