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

The longest conclave lasted almost three years. Thankfully, the timeframe has changed drastically in recent years.

Filippo Monteforte/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Cardinals recited an oath before beginning the conclave. Vatican Media, via Associated Press The first papal conclave in more than a decade ...

Intelligence agencies have long gathered information to help their governments get a sense of who the next pope might be ...

The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome, with 133 cardinal electors tasked with choosing Francis' successor. The question now turns to which man — and it will be a man ...

The movie “Conclave” delves into the intricacies of papal politics and the election of a new pope, but how accurate is it in portraying the Vatican's inner workings?

According to the Associated Press, the vote for the next pope will take place in secret. Here's why the conclave operates under secrecy. Per the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the papal conclave is an ...

The papal conclave, a gathering of 130 Roman Catholic cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis, begins on May 7. No matter whom they choose, his place in church history is already ...

The death of Pope Francis on Monday means the Roman Catholic Church will soon begin the process of selecting a new pontiff. That ancient and mysterious undertaking known as the "conclave ...

After a pope dies, the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral process called the "papal conclave." In practice, since at least 1276, the conclave gathers the church ...

Like his predecessors, Francis was selected using an age-old method — a system known as the Papal conclave. Interest in papal elections has also surged recently thanks to the Oscar-nominated fil ...