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Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, cardinals are meeting for a second day to elect his successor. The ...

Crowds of people gathered to enter St. Peter's Square in Vatican City for day two of the papal conclave on Thursday.

The next person elected pope in the papal conclave will need at least 89 votes in order to achieve the majority from the College of Cardinals.

Cardinals in the secret conclave are entering a second day of discussions on Thursday after their first round of voting to ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, said in a post to X on Wednesday that he and the other North American cardinals will bring the "in ...

Vatican firefighters have installed the iconic chimney atop the Sistine Chapel, a key step ahead of the May 7 conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor. Black smoke = no pope yet; white smoke = a new ...

Catholic cardinals are returning to the Sistine Chapel on Thursday for a second day of voting to try and elect a new pope.

The cardinals can vote twice Thursday morning and twice in the afternoon. If no one collects a two-thirds majority, the ...

The 133 cardinals are expected to vote again in the morning after spending the night sequestered at the Vatican residences.

Papal conclaves have featured calls of election fraud and bribery so gauche that riches were wheeled in on donkey carts.

The great doors of the Sistine Chapel shut Wednesday after the cry of “extra omnes” — Latin for “all out” — and 133 cardinals ...