Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming ...

CITÉ DU VATICAN, Holy See (AFP) — Besides its masterpieces by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel is undergoing a makeover, ...

The preparations are all leading up to the solemn pageantry of the start of the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis ...

On May 7, an expected 133 cardinal electors will enter the Sistine Chapel to elect the new Roman pontiff, the successor to Pope Francis, who shied away from giving red hats to the traditional ...

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

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

Ahead of the election of the next pope, a chimney was installed atop the Sistine Chapel on Friday, which will help notify the ...

Of the 133 cardinals with the right to vote in this conclave, 108 were created by Pope Francis and therefore will be ...

Robert Harris praises the secret process of electing Pope Francis's success, saying political parties could learn from it.

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...