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

Vatican workers installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the conclave to elect a ...

The voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

As the Vatican gears up to elect the successor to Pope Francis, technology is being deployed to prevent leaks during the ...

Cardinals enter the Vatican’s sealed conclave to elect the next pope in a centuries-old ritual shrouded in secrecy.

Cardinals hailing from 71 different countries will begin electing a pope this week in the most geographically diverse ...

When cardinals gather to elect a successor to Pope Francis, their task will be far more comfortable than that of many who ...

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

Francis-era reforms that saw a diverse group of cardinals join the mix make his successor nearly impossible to call.

Catholic cardinals are eligible to participate in the conclave, but two have indicated they will not attend. Two of these cardinals are from the Tri-State Area -- Timothy Cardinal Dolan from the ...

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...