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

Conclave” the film may have introduced moviegoers to the spectacular ritual and drama of a modern conclave, but the periodic ...

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

Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle has replaced Italian Cardinal Pietro Parolin as the new favorite to become the next pope ...

The Oscar-nominated film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini and offers a fictionalized, high-stakes ...

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.

Preparations for the conclave to find the new head of the Catholic Church accelerated on Friday with the installation of the ...