After every round of voting during a conclave, the ballots are burned with chemicals in a process that enables the cardinals ...

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

The rules and rituals for the election of a new pope say that immediately after his election, he goes into the sacristy of ...

He predicted Italian Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa will be the next pope, and will choose the name Francis II.

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 to September 1271. It was the first example of a papal ...

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

The cardinals will gather for the conclave starting May 7. Special TV broadcasts are planned for the start of the papal ...

The papal conclave will commence in May, when the cardinals will meet at St. Peter's Basilica and pray for the wisdom to ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words “Extra Omnes” the ...

The death of Pope Francis paves the way for one of the most secretive events in human history, as depicted in the papal ...