The oath-taking is being held in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican for all those assigned to the upcoming conclave. They ...

Catholic cardinals will enter into conclave this week to choose a new pope, with the Church's 1.4 billion members holding ...

From the Sistine Chapel to St Peter's Square, locations in the Vatican where the new pope's election will play out in the ...

Cardinals will gather on May 7 in a conclave in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. Here is a brief glossary of ...

The Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain and the Sistine Chapel usually top the "must see" list of visitors to Rome and the Vatican.

As the Vatican gears up to elect the successor to Pope Francis, technology is being deployed to prevent leaks during the ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

In an open letter to the cardinals who will gather Wednesday to elect the next pope, young people from around the world said ...

In centuries past, the cardinals slept in corridors and rooms of the Apostolic Palace itself during the conclave ...

The universal church is on full display during the waiting-for-white-smoke period. Watchers who gather at St. Peter's Square ...

Experts say the process requires "two custom fireworks", smoke test rehearsals and Vatican firefighters on standby.

Catholic cardinals are eligible to participate in the conclave, but two have indicated they will not attend. Two of these cardinals are from the Tri-State Area -- Timothy Cardinal Dolan from the ...