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 Vatican conclave will continue on Thursday with as many as four more rounds of voting. A two-thirds majority of the 133 cardinals is required to select a new leader for the world’s 1.4 billion ...

VITERBO, Italy (AP) — It was the mounting rage of citizens in Viterbo, a small town north of Rome, that put an end to the longest papal election in the history of the Catholic Church, forging ...

The cardinals were first locked in Viterbo’s papal palace with a key, giving birth to the term conclave, which comes from the Latin words “cum” (with) and “clavem” (key). “The ...