If you have never seen the uniforms of the Vatican’s Swiss Guard — personal bodyguards to the pope — imagine that St. Peter’s ...

Here's everything you need to know about a conclave, the secret, centuries-old process used to select a new pope.

The papal conclave will take place as usual in the hallowed space of the Sistine Chapel. What is the history of this famous ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters ... Only cardinals under age 80 are eligible to vote. Current regulations notionally limit the ...

(AP Photo/Paolo Santalucia, File) Nearly all prefects of Vatican offices lose their jobs when a pope dies, but a few stay on, including the foreign minister and the master of liturgical ceremonies ...

Cardinals have no contact with the outside world after the master of liturgical ceremonies utters ... Only cardinals under age 80 are eligible to vote. Current regulations notionally limit the ...

Current regulations notionally limit the number ... but Benedict revised the oath that liturgical assistants and secretaries take to make it explicit, saying they must observe “absolute and ...