They then fold the ballot, hold it up for visibility and carry it to the altar, where a chalice covered by a plate awaits.

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Cardinals returned to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday to resume voting for a new pope and crowds flocked back to St. Peter's ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

When Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope in 2013, many liberals had high expectations. Would priests be allowed to marry? Or, more radical still, perhaps he would open a path for women to ...

So that means some foods were banned or carefully inspected at previous conclaves, including whole roast chicken, stuffed ...

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

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

The conclave to select the next pope has begun after Catholic cardinals from across the world filed into the Sistine Chapel ...

"There are names that are thrown around, but we really will not know until he walks onto that balcony," Xaverian Dean of ...