All Vatican personnel involved in supporting the upcoming papal conclave will take an oath of secrecy — under penalty of ...

Hundreds of cardinals attended mass inside St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Sunday, to mark the end of a nine-day mourning ...

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries are eligible to elect a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

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.

If the Catholic cardinals entering the conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis are looking for a steady administrator ...

Pope Francis is credited with addressing the issue more strongly than his predecessors did, but clerical abuse remains a ...

The papal smoke signals are ready. Vatican workers on Friday hoisted a chimney onto the roof of the Sistine Chapel, which ...

Two cardinals, Michael Czerny and Chibly Langlois, sat down with ABC News to discuss the challenges facing the church that ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

Some 133 Catholic cardinals will enter a conclave on Wednesday to elect a successor to Pope Francis, who died April 21 at 88.