With no official campaigning or list of candidates and the election process shrouded in secrecy, speculation about who will ...

Cardinals will take part in a Mass at St Peter's Basilica this morning and will later walk to the Sistine Chapel to cast ...

The secretive Vatican conclave to elect a new pope has begun, as 133 cardinals gather under intense security, ancient rituals ...

The election of a new pope starts today, with cardinals from around the world set to begin the process of voting. Many people ...

WITH the conclave set to gather to choose the next pope, all eyes turn to the Vatican. Cardinals from across the world have ...

With the conclave to elect the new pope beginning in Vatican City on Wednesday, following the death of Francis I on 21 April, ...

There is a famous quote attributed to then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1997, in comments to a Bavarian television station.

When the conclave's cardinals finish casting their ballots under Michelangelo's frescoed ceilings of the Sistine Chapel, the ...

Pope Francis' death set off a series of traditions that culminates in a vote for his successor. Here are some of the possible ...

Francis’ successor will be selected by cardinals at the conclave that begins on May 7. Cardinals, known as the “princes of ...

Moment ring and seal used by Pope Francis are 'destroyed' by an unnamed female Vatican official, in a task usually reserved ...

With the mourning period for Pope Francis over, Cardinals from around the world, on Wednesday (May 7), gathered at St Peter's ...