Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

Sixteen days after the reign of Pope Francis ended with his death on Easter Monday, the Catholic Church is looking to the future. The papal conclave got underway Wednesday afternoon in Rome ...

The Vatican announced the conclave's start date following ... a significantly less chaotic process, with both Francis and his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, elected within around two days.

He has followed the teachings of Pope Francis throughout his service to the church, supporting undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ Catholics. When did the 2025 papal conclave begin? When did voting ...

Before he was named Pope Francis, as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Bergoglio gave a short speech to other cardinals before the 2013 conclave began, in which he called for the church “to come ...

according to the Vatican. Pope Francis was the 266th pope in the Roman Catholic Church’s nearly 2000-year history. The first pope was St. Peter, the apostle of Jesus Christ. The conclave ...

Following the death or abdication of a pope, the Catholic Church's College of Cardinals meets at the Vatican to choose a new leader at a papal conclave. However, a papal conclave does not ...

As the Vatican prepares for the election of ... including stories about who could succeed Pope Francis. Some “Conclave” fans did not appear surprised by the film’s resurgence in the zeitgeist.

Until the election of Pope Benedict XVI ... experts were already at work preparing for the conclave to elect Francis' successor. Vatican firefighters installed the chimney at the Sistine Chapel ...

The Chicago roots of Pope Leo XIV have been well-documented ever since the 69-year-old Prevost was somewhat unexpectedly ...