Today, the College of Cardinals will be locked inside the Sistine Chapel’s Apostolic Palace until white smoke billows above ...

The oath of secrecy, as stipulated by the apostolic constitution Universi Dominici Gregis, took place in the Pauline Chapel ...

It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in ...

All eyes are on Vatican City Tuesday with just over a day to go until the start of the papal conclave to elect the 267th pope ...

The conclave that begins in Vatican City on Wednesday is the process of electing the next leader of the world's 1.4 billion ...

Cardinals electing Pope Francis's successor will have an easier time than many of their predecessors, who endured spartan ...

In centuries past, the cardinals slept in corridors and rooms of the Apostolic Palace itself during the conclave ...

Video. Following the death of Pope Francis, Vatican officials sealed his residences at Casa Santa Marta and the Apostolic ...

Apostolic Palace sealed after Pope Francis' death Following the death of Pope Francis, Vatican officials sealed his residences at Casa Santa Marta and the Apostolic Palace, following procedures ...

New video depicts the sealing of the papal apartments after the death of Pope Francis. The scene is all too familiar with the ...

A change in popes is a complicated process, with centuries-old rituals involving the transition in leadership for both the ...