Some cardinals ensure their choice remains secret by obscuring their handwriting before folding up their paper ballot to just an inch wide. Ballots are then placed in a lidded bronze and silver ...

Inside the secretive meeting, cardinals will use an array of objects ... The urn is used to collect the ballots, rectangular pieces of paper printed with the Latin phrase “Eligo in Summum ...

The cardinals at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ... Any notes taken during the conclave are supposed to be burned with the paper ballots, which are incinerated up to twice a day.

The process to elect the next pope will begin on May 7. ROME -- Two cardinals in the Roman Catholic Church who will be voting in the upcoming papal conclave sat down with ABC News to discuss the ...