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.

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’ policies.

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 ...

Cardinals elected the Chicago-born Augustinian missionary Robert Prevost to succeed Pope Francis on Thursday and follow in his ... and blessed the cardinals as he approached the altar and Michelangelo ...

Peace be with you,' Pope Leo XIV said in greeting the thousands of people who packed St. Peter's Square, a plaza brimming ...

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 ...

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa Marta for dinner. It is then, on the sidelines of the voting process, that ...

Vatican museum walls are lined with the masterpieces of Michelangelo ... the first Pope to do so since Gregory XII in 1415. Francis was elected in 2013 with a mandate to tackle the financial ...

Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals ...