While much of the world watches the Vatican from afar during this historic papal conclave, a group of Maine students is ...

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

The late Pope Francis, who died on April 21 at the age of 88, will go down in history as a radical pontiff, and a champion of ...

As the sun set over the Vatican, black smoke rose from the temporary chimney of the Sistine Chapel over thousands of faithful gathered in St Peter's Square. A new pope has not yet been elected.

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio emerged onto the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the conclave of March 2013, few ...

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes are on the Sistine Chapel, where ...

Catholic cardinals are gathering at the Vatican to elect the successor to Pope Francis, who died on April 21. Voting will ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

Black smoke billowed from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday evening, signalling an inconclusive first vote by ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on ...

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