Chiara Pironi, a 26-year-old who lives in Rome, said she would keep returning to St Peter's Square until a new pope is chosen ...

Robert Cardinal Prevost is in the running to be the first American Pope. Catholic cardinals are meeting to select a new Pope ...

The next person elected pope in the papal conclave will need at least 89 votes in order to achieve the majority from the College of Cardinals.

Cardinals are meeting in a secret, sacred conclave for a second day as they seek a new pontiff to follow Pope Francis.

On Day 2, the cardinals will begin their day with a mass in the Pauline Chapel and then retreat to the Sistine Chapel for ...

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

Special honors were given to teachers in Hoover and Birmingham. The Alabama State Board of Education announced that Katie ...

The crowd outside St. Peter's Basilica erupted as black smoke began to seep from the Sistine Chapel Wednesday night.

In total, 133 cardinals will be voting during this conclave, the most electors ever, with 108 of them being appointed by Pope Francis.

As Cardinals prepare to vote, several Catholics in the New Orleans area are praying for the conclave. While the world awaits a new Pope, Catholics from near and far including Lisa Janusa are gathering ...

The cardinals are participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history.