Everyone from cooks to translators to elevator operators took an oath of secrecy at the Vatican on Monday — under threat of automatic excommunication — to prepare for this week’s conclave.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis are taking ...

VATICAN CITY — Black smoke billowing from ... Speculation swirled that the throne of St. Peter could go to a first pontiff from the United States. Just as many voices were heralding the chances ...

We found it, but its contents are confidential,” Diddi said, speaking at the presentation of a new book, “The Throne and the Altar,” by Vatican journalist Antonietta Calabro. The dossier in ...

All mobile phone signals will be deactivated in the Vatican on Wednesday ahead of the highly secretive conclave to elect the next pope, Italian state media reported. The Vatican also plans to use ...

The cardinals decided to meet on May 7, 16 days after the death of Pope Francis because the Vatican needed time to prepare for the 133 cardinal electors, the largest conclave in history.

The Vatican shared a livestream of the mass on Sunday as it has done every day of Novemdiales. Mamberti led the mass in Italian, as a choir sang hymns and a number of others stepped up to the ...

The Vatican said the pontiff also did some work on Sunday. The Vatican press office released a photo of Pope Francis on Sunday in a private chapel of Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where he continues to ...

Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to select a new pope. After the first round of voting, black smoke ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. The support staff for the cardinals who will elect the successor to Pope Francis took an oath of ...