Following the death of Pope Francis, the conclave of cardinals that gathered at the Vatican wasted little time choosing a new ...

Multiple rounds of voting likely will be required before a candidate emerges with the two-thirds majority required to become ...

The Pope’s political program is neither left-wing nor right-wing, but Catholic. His ambivalent relationship with the Trump ...

The secret vote that elected Pope Gregory X lasted from November 1268 ... The most prominent antipopes during the Western Schism were Clement VII, Benedict XIII, Alexander V, and John XXIII.

When Gregory died two years later ... The cardinals admitted they didn’t mean to elect him and went on to elect Pope Clement VII. But Urban VI wasn’t going away, and the church had two ...