The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic Church. He'll ...

Robert Prevost, a Cardinal and Villanova University graduate, became the first American to be named pope on Thursday after ...

The College of Cardinals elected Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago to become the next leader of the worldwide Catholic ...

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

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

It begins not with a fanfare, but with a vow. A heavy silence hangs in the air, not born of absence but of sacred intent.

The tradition of locking up cardinals began some 800 years ago after they failed to elect a pope even after one year ...

But, perhaps a lesser-known and potentially more significant period was the brief time a small city just 90 minutes north of ...

The longest election in history lasted almost three years following the death of Clement IV in November 1268, held in the ...

Catholic cardinals from across the globe will gather for the conclave to elect Pope Francis’ successor. John Yang takes a deeper look at the high-stakes undertaking to select the next pontiff.