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Vatican City — All the Vatican staff who will be involved in the 2025 conclave to pick the late Pope Francis' successor — from the cleaners to the cooks and custodians — have taken their ...

Following the death of Pope Francis, the 2025 Papal Conclave has begun as cardinals gather inside the Sistine Chapel to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church. With the world watching ...

Update: White smoke poured from the chimney on top of the Sistine Chapel on Thursday afternoon at the Vatican, indicating that the cardinal electors in the conclave had chosen a new pope.

ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP via Getty Cardinal Robert Prevost became the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the conclave. His papal name is Pope Leo XIV. Onlookers learned that a ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and "clavis," meaning "together" and "key," respectively – highlighting the absolute, ...

Cardinals attend a final Mass St. Peter’s Basilica, before the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Wednesday, May 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Cardinals, with white mitre hats ...

After that marathon conclave, Pope Gregory X was finally elected in September of 1271. How long is the 2025 papal conclave expected to last? There is no way to predict how long a conclave will ...

The papal conclave for the selection of a new pope takes place at the Sistine Chapel, which begins on May 7. While there is no official deadline for the voting process to finish and finalize the ...

When did the 2025 papal conclave begin? When did voting for a new pope start? The papal conclave begins Wednesday, May 7. There's no timeline for it to conclude. A new Pope could be selected in a ...

The movie “Conclave” delves into the intricacies of papal politics and the election of a new pope, but how accurate is it in portraying the Vatican's inner workings?