The College of Cardinals on Wednesday called on Catholics around the world to pray for them as they prepare to enter the conclave next week to elect the next pope, acknowledging the “enormity of ...

The conclave is a time-honored process conducted in secrecy behind the locked doors of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.

But the composition of today's College of Cardinals — and the electors who will form the all-important conclave — is unlike any that came before. Not every cardinal can vote in the conclave ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As the conclave to elect a new pope began ... fastened on a comment by the 91-year-old dean of the College of Cardinals, Giovanni Battista Re, asking whether he may have ...

The plume came a full 90 minutes past the time the College of Cardinals was set to wrap voting on day one of the conclave. As the afternoon’s proceedings began, a Vatican official declared ...

Vatican City, April 30 (ANI): The College of Cardinals has recognised that all 133 cardinal electors have the right to vote in the upcoming conclave, Vatican news reported. Notably, the Holy See ...

Joe Vericker/Getty With less than a week left until the conclave to select a new pope is set to begin, Cardinal Timothy Dolan has given an inside look at the process. The meeting of the College of ...

The conclave to elect the next pope will open ... This important decision was made by 180 of the 252 members of the College of Cardinals. This means that on the morning of May 7, the cardinal ...

Within 20 days of the pope’s death, a conclave consisting of 120 cardinals ... “completely reshaped the makeup” of the College of Cardinals, the newer members of which were “extremely ...

The conclave will be held in the Sistine Chapel ... I snagged one of the last tickets to go inside that famous chapel before the College of Cardinals takes it over. FRAYER: We began in a tourist ...

The College of Cardinals on Wednesday called on Catholics around the world to pray for them as they prepare to enter the conclave next week to elect the next pope, acknowledging the “enormity of ...