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

On May 7, the world will look on as the conclave to elect a new pope begins. This highly complex and secretive process will ...

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

Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Joel Hodge says it is possible a pope from a non-Catholic-majority country could be elected. (Supplied: Australian Catholic ...

Cardinal Peter Erdo arrives to lead a mass at his titular church of Santa Francesca Romana in Rome, Sunday, May 4, 2025 ...

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

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

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 ...

Will cardinals continue Pope Francis' progressive ways or will they turn back the clock in favor of traditionalists?