The electors met for mass at St Peter’s Basilica ahead of the conclave in the Sistine Chapel from Wednesday afternoon.

The College of Cardinals will meet beginning Wednesday, May 7, 2025, to vote in a papal conclave -- a secret ballot where two ...

Cardinals attend Mass at the Vatican before secretive papal election begins - Some 133 Cardinals begin their secretive ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals are sequestering themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls ...

The Papal Conclave becomes a magnet for tourists to visit the Vatican, even though the process of electing a new Pope to ...

The 2024 historical drama Conclave follows Cardinal Thomas Lawrence ( Ralph Fiennes) organising a conclave to elect the next ...

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, presided over the liturgy, underlining the ...

The Swiss Guard, the pope’s iconic bodyguards, look ceremonial but in the pageantry of the Renaissance-style uniform lies the ...

The next leader of the 1.4 billion-strong global Catholic Church will succeed Pope Francis, who died I office. Only five ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the ...

Although the voting takes place behind closed doors and is notoriously secretive, this longstanding tradition is a way to ...