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

The Oscar-nominated film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes look at what happens behind the Vatican's closed doors.

The unprecedented number of 133 cardinal electors surpasses all previous papal conclaves, breaking the previous record of 115 electors in the 2005 and 2013 elections.

From the longest and shortest elections to the origin of the required vow of secrecy, here are some facts about the centuries ...

The Vatican is finalizing preparations for the May 7 conclave, with firefighters on Friday installing a chimney on the roof ...

If the next pope is from sub-Saharan Africa, he would be the first in Catholic Church history. Catholic Africans think it is ...

In the coming days plumes of black or white smoke will rise from a chimney above the Sistine Chapel, signaling the voting at ...

During the seating there's no communication with the outside world on the proceedings, except for the smoke signals from the ...

Speculation surrounding a conclave to elect a pope is a time-honored tradition. But for the impending conclave following ...

After every two rounds of voting in the Sistine Chapel, the ballots of the cardinals are burned in a special furnace to ...

Confusion surrounding the birthdate of Cardinal Philippe Ouédraogo, a conservative cardinal from Burkina Faso, may cost him his spot at the upcoming papal conclave. Only cardinals under the age of 80 ...