Get the latest updates from the 2025 Papal Conclave as cardinals cast their votes inside the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope.

Catholic cardinals will sequester themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for the start of a conclave to elect the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, a successor to Pope Francis who died in April at the age of 88.

Cardinals have wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings before they enter the conclave to elect a new pope. They are trying to identify someone who can follow Pope Francis and make the 2,000-year-old Catholic Church credible