More than 130 cardinals from all over the world are gathering today for the papal conclave, through which a new head of the ...

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The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the morning after spending the night sequestered at the Vatican residences.

Pope Francis appointed women to key Vatican posts. Will his successor consider women as deacons and priests next?

VATICAN CITY — Cardinals wrapped up their pre-conclave meetings Tuesday, trying to identify a possible new pope who could ...

While this conclave began yesterday and ended today, it's not quite the fastest one in history. In 1503, Pope Julius II was ...

Prevost was reading a book when he got a text that said there was white smoke billowing from the Sistine Chapel in Vatican ... Denise Murphy McGraw, the group’s national co-chair.

She tells Rolling Stone that she’s been to a single Mass service in her ... resolving instead to monitor the live camera feed of the Sistine Chapel chimney that releases white smoke when a ...

Catholics across Texas cheered as they watched news coverage of white smoke emerge from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel in Rome ... of the centuries-old faith. It's unclear whether Leo XIV ...

Each piece of the ensemble holds an important meaning in the Catholic faith ... the Sistine Chapel chimney and the new Pope Leo was announced to the exultant crowd. There's no set schedule ...