Pope Leo XIV has revived a former Vatican tradition and granted employees a bonus of €500 ($568) for the election of each new ...

Pope Francis's death at the age of 88 means the Catholic Church must choose a new leader. Here's how cardinals elect the next ...

The papal conclave, the secretive election process to elect the next leader of the Roman Catholic Church, commenced on Wednesday.

The conclave to choose the next pope begins Wednesday, with cardinals from around the world gathering in the Vatican to partake in the centuries-old tradition. Cardinal electors walked in procession ...

The decision was made at the Fifth General Congregation, held on Monday morning in the Vatican's Synod Hall. The conclave will take place in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel, which will remain closed to ...

Catholic cardinal electors from six continents gathered Wednesday inside the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican for the 2025 conclave to select a new pope. After the first round of voting, black smoke ...

Simply put, a conclave is the assembly of cardinals that elects a pope. The word itself comes from the Latin "com" and ...

By the year 1550, ravioli, whole chickens and pies were some of the foods banned from being eaten in a conclave, as they were seen as risks to the secrecy that remains such a major part of the ...

Per Catholic doctrine, only baptized, Catholic males are allowed to be priests, who can then go on to be cardinals. Only male cardinals under the age of 80 can vote in a conclave, and only men are ...

Here's how it works, a list of contenders to become the next pope and how many conclaves there have been in the last 100 years.

VATICAN CITY — A conclave to elect a successor to Pope Francis will begin on Wednesday, May 7, the Vatican announced Monday. The date of the conclave was chief on the agenda of cardinals holding ...

The conclave to elect Pope Francis‘ successor will start on May 7, the Vatican said on Monday following a closed-door meeting of cardinals at the Vatican, the first since Francis’ funeral on ...