Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next pontiff at the conclave.

VATICAN CITY >> If Roman Catholic cardinals have not picked a new pope by day three of next week’s conclave, then things are not going to plan.

On the ceiling of the chapel where the cardinals elected Pope Leo XIV is Michelangelo’s kaleidoscopic signifier of a time when Francis’s vision of an inclusive church would have seemed not radical at ...

Following Pope Francis’s passing on April 21 and the election of Pope Leo on May 8, many people have wondered where the ...

One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are beginning centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

to announce the Gospel,” former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69, of Chicago said in English. The new pope stood at an altar next to the Michelangelo painting “The Last Judgment” and ...

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Leo XIV urged the Catholic Church to work urgently to restore the faith of millions in his first homily as pope Friday, a day after the little-known cardinal become the first head of the 2,000-year ...

When the conclave’s cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo’s frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the 267th pope will have to decide whether to continue Francis ...

While there are a few cardinals seen as front-runners to succeed Pope Francis, many of the clerics who will vote have not made up their minds.

Pope Francis appointed around 80% of the cardinal ... majority of participants and also that many of those sitting beneath Michelangelo's famed frescos will have had little opportunity to get ...