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 ...

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 ...

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

Black smoke appeared from a chimney atop the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Wednesday, signalling that the 133 Catholic ...

Sick of betting on college sports? Try the College of Cardinals. It’s a high-stakes game that has been played for centuries, ...

Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope were locked behind the heavy wood doors of the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, ...

Cardinals to take secrecy oaths ahead of vote for new pope Voting occurs in the Sistine Chapel, cut off from world New pope ...

A frenzy of betting is underway as gamblers try to predict results of the upcoming conclave to pick Pope Francis’ successor. The cardinals may be stacked against them.