On the morning of May 7 the conclave will commence, with all the cardinals present, with the Holy Mass for the Election of ...

Soon after ballots are distributed, the Cardinals will move on to the first vote and those with more than 20 votes will be ...

If the vote doesn't yield the two-third majority needed to elect the new pope, the cardinals go back to guesthouse Casa Santa ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — One hundred and thirty-three cardinals sequestered themselves behind the Vatican’s medieval walls for a ...

Cardinals from five continents held a final mass in St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Wednesday before sealing themselves away to elect a new pope to lead the ...

Cardinals attend a final Mass St. Peter’s Basilica, before the conclave to ... and in silence — beneath Michelangelo’s famed ceiling fresco of the Creation and his monumental “Last ...

The ceiling is covered in gilded wood ... Francis will be the first not to be interred in St. Peter’s Basilica since Leo XIII, who died in 1903 and was laid to rest in the Basilica di San ...