At the end of each voting round, black smoke means a new pope has not yet to be selected, while white smoke indicates a new ...

The most international conclave and one of the youngest in recent history will elect a new pontiff in less than a month ...

A chimney above the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican will signal the election of a new pope and leader of the Catholic Church.

Following the death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church has chosen a date to elect its new leader, in a process virtually ...

More than 130 cardinals will be sequestered in the Sistine Chapel to elect the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff after Pope Francis' death.

Catholic cardinals from across the globe will gather for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor. John Yang takes a deeper look at the high-stakes undertaking to select the next pontiff.

A look at the Irish American Cardinal electors set to partake in the Conclave to elect a new Pope following Francis' death. Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, Cardinal Kevin ...

The method the Catholic Church uses to select their leader has remained virtually unchanged for the last 800 years ...

That is why most popes in history have chosen the name John. After stating his new name, the new pope is taken to the so-called "Room of Tears", an antechamber in the Sistine Chapel, where he first ...

When the white smoke blows, signaling the election of a new pope, the world will watch not only the man who emerges in his ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters the words "Extra Omnes" the Latin phrase for "all out," to ask all those present except the cardinal ...

The papal conclave, the solemn and secretive process in which cardinals convene to choose a successor to Pope Francis, gets underway in the Vatican today.