The OriginsThe word conclave comes from the Latin words cum and clavis, the idea being that the cardinals are kept “under ...

Cardinals who will take part in the secret conclave to elect a new Catholic pope began checking into two Vatican hotels on ...

Cardinal Daniel DiNardo led the Sioux City diocese as bishop for six years during the early 2000s. The 75-year-old is ...

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope. Freed from ...

The conclave, one of the world's oldest and most secretive electoral processes, gathers Roman Catholic cardinals under 80 to elect a new pope in the Sistine Chapel. Cardinals vote in secrecy until a ...

Church officials announced his death early Monday. Francis was the 266 th pope in the 2,000-year-old Roman Catholic Church, served for 12 years. Now, the papal conclave – the process to elect a ...

What we know from inside the walls is limited since those taking part are sworn to an oath of secrecy or else face excommunication, a more severe penalty within the Catholic Church. Each day ...