The Sistine Chapel, with its awe-inspiring Renaissance frescoes, is a majestic stage for the Catholic Church’s most sacred ritual: the election of a new pope. But beneath the sacred decor, conclaves ...

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

Explore the history of papal conclaves, from the longest and shortest elections to how we'll know when a new pope is chosen.

America' is covering its 10th papal conclave this week—and while the technology has changed, the content remains much the ...

Intelligence agencies have long gathered information to help their governments get a sense of who the next pope might be ...

Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle are among the favourites to succeed Pope Francis ahead of the Papal Conclave ... the longest in history and is the reason ...

One of the most remarkable aspects of Papal conclaves is the potential length of the election process. While modern conclaves typically conclude within a few days, history has seen conclave periods ...

Prevost, the first American Pope, has taken the papal name Leo XIV. Read More: ‘Peace Be With You’: Pope Leo XIV Steps Onto ...

Throughout the 20th century, only two conclaves lasted up to five days − Pope Pius X's election in 1903 and Pope Pius XI's ...