After that unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime experience of being a participant in a conclave with 132 other brother cardinals ...

Pope Leo XIV, right, stands in the Sistine Chapel among cardinals after being elected at the Vatican on May 8, 2025. He ...

After the cardinals take their oaths, a senior cardinal delivers a meditation. The master of papal liturgical ceremonies, Archbishop Diego Ravelli, calls out “Extra omnes,” Latin for “all out.” Anyone ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals who will choose the next pope filed into the Sistine Chapel on Wednesday, before locking themselves ... under the gaze of the stern Christ depicted in Michelangelo's ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo's masterpiece “The Last Judgment,” and led the ... crack down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination sent ...

The prelates will now withdraw to the Santa Marta guesthouse where they are staying for the election, before ... up one by one in front of the Renaissance master's depiction of the Last Judgement ...

With all the pomp, drama and solemnity that the Catholic Church can muster, 133 cardinals on Wednesday began the centuries-old rituals to elect a successor to Pope Francis, celebrating a morning Mass ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a ...

Speaking in Latin, Parolin stood before Michelangelo’s vision of heaven and hell, “The Last Judgment,” and led ... down on decades of abuse and cover-up. Advocates for women’s ordination ...