First of all, the conclave has a rule that if the voting takes too long, then a pope can be elected with a 50+1 percent of ...

The world has farewelled Pope Frances and now the Catholic Church will begin the process of finding a new leader. On May 7th the College of Cardinals will gather for a Conclave. We find out what that ...

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For the first time, the majority of cardinals to choose a pope are not from Europe, as Catholic demographics shift. But ...

Catholic cardinals entering a conclave on Wednesday to pick a new pope do not yet have a clear idea of who will emerge as ...

Cleaners and cooks. Doctors and nurses. Even drivers and elevator operators. All the support staff for the cardinals who will ...

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 voting is highly choreographed and time-consuming to avoid any possibility of fraud or doubt about the results.

As different as a papal election is from every other kind of election in the modern world, each conclave nonetheless has an ...

A conclave is the centuries-old election of a pope that derives its name from the Italian “con clave” (with a key) to ...

The College of Cardinals gathers this week to elect the next pope to lead the Catholic Church. But what preparations go into setting up the rare, secretive event?

But papal betting has a long history. Roman banking houses were taking bets as far back as 1503. Alessandro Damasceni Peretti ...