Odds-makers likely had an easier time 20 years ago, when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger stepped onto the balcony overlooking St.

The conclave on Thursday elected a new pope after white smoke was seen rising from the Sistine Chapel, but the new pope has ...

The conclave to elect a new pope has begun, but how long will it last? Here's the longest and shortest a conclave has lasted in history.

The Sistine Chapel is named after Pope Sixtus IV ... The last conclave was held in March 2013 following Pope Benedict XVI's resignation, the first of its kind in more than 600 years, and resulted ...

This selection comes after two days of conclave in the Sistine Chapel, tying the modern record for the fastest selection of a ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

The cardinals will take their oaths in the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before they cast their first ... elections in a 1996 document that remains largely in force, though Pope Benedict XVI amended it ...

Black smoke pours from Sistine Chapel after Cardinals fail to elect pope - The smoke signals that the 133 cardinals have voted but haven’t reached a two-thirds consensus required to elect a successor ...

Benedict's most notable change to the original ... Black smoke from the Sistine Chapel chimney means no decision; white smoke signals the cardinals have chosen a pope and that he has accepted.

Explore historical trivia behind the longest conclave and the shortest, the oldest pope and the youngest and a handful of ...

On the second day of the conclave at the Vatican, the cardinal electors chose Chicago-born Cardinal Robert Prevost as the new ...